- What was the period after the Civil War called?
Your answer:
Renaissance
Reconstruction
Massive Resistance
Depression
- Which is not a reason Virginia's economy was in ruins after the Civil War?
Your answer:
Money had no value
All the freed slaves left
Banks were closed
Railroads, bridges, plantations and crops were destroyed
- What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Your answer:
agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South.
a system common in Virginia after the war in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop.
period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union
Laws established segregation or separation of the races and reinforced prejudices held by whites
- What was sharecropping?
Your answer:
a system common in Virginia after the war in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop.
period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union
Laws established segregation or separation of the races and reinforced prejudices held by whites
a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South.
- What is segregation?
Your answer:
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion
An unfair difference in the treatment of people
Abolishment of racial segregation
Full equality of all races in the use of public facilities
- What is discrimination?
Your answer:
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion
An unfair difference in the treatment of people
Abolishment of racial segregation
Full equality of all races in the use of public facilities
- What did the Jim Crow laws NOT do?
Your answer:
established unfair poll taxes
established unfair voting tests
provided jobs for everyone
provided separate schools for blacks and whites
- What was the key to Virginia's growth during Reconstruction?
Your answer:
people moved to rural areas
plantations were reopened
the government provided money to the state
technological advances in transportation