Which of the following statements best describes South Carolina’s unique problems as it struggled to recover from the 1819 depression?Multiple choice question.The 1820s saw an increase in destructive hurricanes and flooding in the state.The state militia’s involvement in Native American removal constituted an unbearable strain on South Carolina’s treasury.The state continued to rely on agriculture, but the soil was increasingly unable to sustain it.The state had a shortage of enslaved labor, and replacing it with paid labor lowered profit margins.

Why did the federal government focus more on political change in Reconstruction than economic assistance to freemen and aid for infrastructure in the devastated South (where most battles were fought)?

Which of the following best describes is the Redeemer myth of Reconstruction in the states of the former Confederacy?Group of answer choicesReconstruction was a tragic era of Republican misrule that only ended when white Democrats took powerThe American South became a better place during Reconstruction because of the work of Christian socialistsReconstruction would have gone smoothly and with little violence if Abraham Lincoln would have lived to oversee itReconstruction was a heroic era in which black citizens finally enjoyed the their well-earned civil rights

Which of the following WAS NOT a component of the "Lost Cause"?Group of answer choicesSlavery was an evil that the North forced upon the South during the 1770sSecession was based on the correct constitutional principle of "states' rights"The South was a more moral and Christian region than the NorthThe Confederacy may have lost the war, but it was only defeated by the North's superior manpower and industry

Why did South Carolina secede (separate) from the US in 1860?

Name a problem that led to the Civil War.*states’ rightsslaveryeconomic differencesall of the above