Effects of Reconstruction in Virginia

The period of time after the Civil War was ___________________ for the South.

• easy

• difficult

• no different

• just the same

The time right after the Civil War when the government was rebuilding the South was called________________.

• Restitution

• Recompromise

• Reconstruction

• Destruction

The economy of Virginia was________________________.

• unaffected by the war.

• changed a little by the war, but not much.

• just like the economy in the North.

• ruined after the war.

Virginia _____________________ millions of dollars after the war.

• owed

• borrowed

• had

• got credit for

The battles in Virginia had...

• caused some trouble.

• no effect.

• ruined the land.

• caused nothing to change.

After the Civil War, slaves had...

• a better life right away with good jobs and nice places to live.

• a hard time finding jobs and places to live.

• the ability to stay in slavery.

• a really good time enjoying their new found freedom.

The _______________________ was created to help newly feed slaves and poor whites after the war.

• Freedom Council

• Freedom Bureau

• Freedman's Business

• Freedman's Bureau

Sharecropping was a good idea until...

• freed slaves revolted against it.

• plantation owners took too large a share of the crops.

• crops wouldn't grow because the renters wouldn't plant them.

• owners stopped renting the land to anyone.

Sharecropping allowed...

• poor whites and freed slaves to rent land and pay their rent with a share of their crops.

• plantation owners to put newly freed slaves back in slavery.

• anyone to take land and claim it as their own.

• the South to become successful again.

Sharecropping was...

• the best way for feed slaves to remain free.

• a good idea, but greedy people ruined it.

• a perfect solution for all slaves.