- The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union was called ____________.
Your answer:
Jim Crow Laws
Freedman's Bureau
Reconstruction
- After the Civil War, the state of Virginia was in debt since money issued by the ______ was worthless.
Your answer:
banks
Confederacy
Freedman's Bureau
- Virginia’s ______ was in ruins after the Civil War, and many Virginians moved west to make a new life.
Your answer:
economy
highway system
sharecropping
- During Reconstruction millions of ______ and other people needed housing, clothing, food and jobs.
Your answer:
plantation owners
freed slaves
unemployed soldiers
- Since Confederate money was worthless _____ were closed after the Civil War.
Your answer:
stores
government offices
banks
- During the Civil War, many of the south’s crops, railroads, bridges and plantations were _____.
Your answer:
destroyed
successful
photographed
- The United States government created an agency, the ________ to provide food, clothing, schools and medical care for freed slaves.
Your answer:
Welfare Department
Jim Crow Laws
Freedman's Bureau
- ______ was a system common in Virginia after the Civil War in which former slaves and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop.
Your answer:
Shareholding
Renting
Sharecropping
- During Reconstruction, _____ began to have power in Virginia’s government, and men of all races could vote.
Your answer:
African Americans
women
Indians
- Which group had the right to vote during Reconstruction?
Your answer:
All men
Farmers
Wealthy businessmen
- After Reconstruction, the gains made for African Americans in Virginia’s government were lost when ________ were passed in southern states.
Your answer:
Sharecropping Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Laws
- What is the separation of people based on race or religion?
Your answer:
Segregation
Discrimination
Equal Rights
- The unfair difference in the treatment of people is called _____.
Your answer:
Separation
Discrimination
Segregation
- “Jim Crow” Laws established segregation or ______ of the races and reinforced prejudices held by whites.
Your answer:
Equal Treatment
Discrimination
separation
- Unfair ______ and voting tests were created to keep African Americans from voting.
Your answer:
poll taxes
laws
taxes
- After the “Jim Crow” Laws were passed, African Americans found it very difficult to vote or ______.
Your answer:
take poll tests
work on large farms
hold public office
- “Jim Crow” Laws forced African Americans to use _____ drinking fountains.
Your answer:
inside
separate
older
- Because of the “Jim Crow” Laws, African American and white children were forced to go to separate ______.
Your answer:
playgrounds
stores
schools
- After the Civil War and Reconstruction, Virginia’s cities _____ with more people, businesses and factories.
Your answer:
grew
changed
competed
- ______ were the key reason for the expansion of business, agriculture, industry and the growth of small towns after the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Your answer:
Canals
Railroads
Highways
- Railroad centers stimulated the growth of _____ where clothing, furniture, and other items were made.
Your answer:
Cities
Factories
Stores
- Which Virginia city became a railroad center?
Your answer:
Norfolk
Roanoke
Richmond
- Richmond, Norfolk and Newport News bustled with activity as the railroad brought new _____ and people to these cities.
Your answer:
products
jobs
farm tools
- Petersburg, Alexandria and _______ were three cities that also grew rapidly after Reconstruction.
Your answer:
Lynchburg
Jamestown
Williamsburg
- ______ was discovered in Tazewell County in southwest Virginia after the Civil War.
Your answer:
Iron ore
Coal
Gold
- ______ became an important industry for people living in southwest Virginia.
Your answer:
Iron ore mining
Gold prospecting
Coal mining
- After the Civil War and Reconstruction, Virginia needed to build more and better ______ in order to move raw materials to manufacturing centers.
Your answer:
roads
canals
trucks