HIUS 222 case study quiz 2 solutions complete answers
· Question 1
Why was the debt peonage system so devastating to workers?
· Question 2
How did the 13th
Amendment allow involuntary servitude to exist in the United States in the late 19th century?
· Question 3
While the use of adult prisoners as labor in the South was common, most southern states recognized that juvenile offenders should be given opportunities to acquire an education and reform their ways.
· Question 4
Since Abraham Lincoln had previously issued the Emancipation Proclamation, the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment was only a formality.
· Question 5
According to the autobiography by a “Georgia Negro Peon”, when did his involuntary servitude start?
· Question 6
What percentage of North Carolina’s prison population was leased to the Western North Carolina Railroad?
· Question 7
The photograph, “Convicts Working on the Railroad” shows that roughly half the prison laborers were white and the other half black.
· Question 8
What did Ezekiel Archey and Ambrose Haskins do?
· Question 9
In the song, “Shine On”, where is the light coming from?
· Question 10
How many of Alabama’s prisoners were leased to the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company for ten years starting in 1888?
