The correct answer is the "Confederate States had superior military leadership for the war."
Answer one is in incorrect because the North had more railroad mileage, citizens, and industry. The only real resource advantage the South had over the North was production of cotton.
Answer three is incorrect because many powerful European nations like Britain and France never formally recognized the Confederacy as an independent country (aka separate from the Union).
Answer four is incorrect because slaves did not work as spies for the Confederacy. Instead, they worked for the Union as spies, as they felt a Union victory would result in their freedom from the institution of slavery.
Therefor, the only correct answer is the second statement.
Answer:
African Americans continued to farm because there were few opportunities other than sharecropping.
Explanation:
Many African Americans remained bound to the land after the Civil War because there were few economic opportunities and most of the skills they had learned were related to farming. There was also the Civil War idea called “forty acres and a mule,” when it was envisioned that blacks would cultivate land that was to be abandoned by whites. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln ordered abandoned Confederate land to be sold to freedmen and agreed to loan army mules. By 1865, 40,000 formerly enslaved persons lived on 400,000 acres of land primarily in South Carolina and Georgia. During Reconstruction sharecropping became common among the African Americans who stayed where they would rent land from landowners and pay with a percentage of what they harvested.
Answer:
It became law on May 30, 1854. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
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