Reconstruction

Choose all the correct answers. Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, what grew in Virginia cities?

• Livestock

• Businesses

• Factories

• People

Choose all that were a result of the Civil War on the economy of Virginia

• Businesses needed to be rebuilt

• Virginia's economy was stronger than before the Civil War

• Money had no value

• Railroads, bridges, and crops were destroyed

Choose all of the positive outcomes that African Americans had as a result of Reconstruction

• African Americans could hold office.

• Industries and technology helped Virginia grow.

• African Americans began to have power in Virginia's government.

• Segregation was created.

The main purpose of the Reconstruction period was to ______ .

• punish the country and bring the northern states back into the Union.

• help rebuild the North and end slavery in the Northern states.

• punish the South and rebuild the nation.

• help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union.

A federal government agency called _____ was created to help freed African Americans who lacked food, medical care, and education.

• sharecropping

• poll taxes

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• "Jim Crow" laws

Developed after the Civil War, a system of unfair practices, Freed men and poor white farmers rented land from landowners, renters paid the owners with a share of the crops.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Poll Taxes

As Virginia grew following the Civil War, the need for more and better _____ increased.

• tobacco products

• harbors

• roads

• farms

What would be a good title for this list?

- needed housing, education, clothing, food and jobs

- faced injustice, violence, and discrimination

• Reasons for the Civil War

• Solutions to rebuild Virginia's economy after the Civil War

• Impact of growth of cities and railroads in Virginia

• Problems faced by freed African Americans during Reconstruction

Which of the following became a major industry in the Appalachian Plateau?

• Apples

• Tobacco

• Iron

• Coal

Which of the following is responsible for the expansion of businesses, agriculture, industries, and facilitated the growth of small towns into cities?

• Railroads

• Coal

• Tobacco

• Cotton