Unit 8 – Review

What word means the separation of people, usually based on race or religion?

• Discrimination

• Segregation

• Sharecropping

• Prejudice

During Reconstruction, freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner with a share of the crops. What was this system called?

• Share Farming

• Tobacco Farming

• Sharecropping

• Share system

What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South?

• Freedwoman Bureau

• Segregation

• Sharecropping

• Freedman’s Bureau

Describe Virginia’s economy during Reconstruction. Money ___________ Banks were _______________, _____________, ____________, ___________, and ___________ were destroyed

• Was worthless Closed, Railroads, bridges, crops, and plantations

• Was great,

  Opened, Railroads, bridges, crops, and plantations

• Was excellent, Closed, Railroads, bridges, crops, and small farms.

• Was worthless, opened, Railroads, bridges, crops, and plantations

What 5 problems did freed slaves face after the Civil War?

• Lack of shoes, food, clothing, jobs, and education

• Lack of housing, food, clothing, jobs, and books

• Lack of computers, food, clothing, jobs, and education

• Lack of housing, food, clothing, jobs, and education

What two specific reasons did Congress pass laws after the Civil War?

• 1. To rebuild the North

  2. To reunite the South with the North

• 1. To rebuild the Richmond only.

  2. To reunite the South with the North

• 1. To destroy the country

  2. To reunite the South with the North

• 1. To rebuild the country

  2. To reunite the South with the North

What was the rebuilding period after the Civil War called?

• Rebuild

• Reconstruction

• Reconstructive

• Preconstruction

What word means the unfair difference in the treatment of people?

• Injustice

• Segregation

• Discrimination

• Nothing

During Reconstruction, what group of people began to have power in Virginia’s government?

• Whites

• Indians

• African Americans

• Irish

During Reconstruction, what group of people could vote?

• Men of all races

• Whites

• African American

• Indians