Reconstruction: Gap Game

What happened to enslaved African Americans after the Union won the Civil War?

• The government sent all freed African Americans to live and work in the western territories.

• All enslaved African Americans were freed, and hundreds of thousands were in need of housing, food, and jobs.

• Freed slaves were reunited with their families and sent to the Caribbean to work on sugar plantations.

• Enslaved African Americans were forced to work on plantations for a small wage paid to them by the landowners.

What was one reason that Virginia's economy was in ruins after the Civil War?

• Many northerners went south on vacations.

• Battles created dams in the rivers that flooded major cities.

• Railroads, bridges, and plantations were destroyed.

• There was very little rain so nothing would grow.

The picture above shows an example of -

• Slavery

• Patriotism

• Segregation

• Sharecropping

What was mined in the Appalachian Plateau that quickly became the main industry of the area?

• Gold

• Oil

• Steel

• Coal

What is sharecropping?

• A person rents farmland and pays the landowner with a share of the crop.

• A field of corn is sheared at the root to plant the next crop.

• Two farmers share in the planting and harvesting of crops.

• Two different crops are planted in the same field.

What happened to Virginia's cities after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

• Everyone left the cities to start new lives in the western territories.

• Most people in the cities bought land and began tobacco farming.

• The cities stayed the same.

• The cities grew with people, businesses, and factories.

What is discrimination?

• Treating all races and nationalities equally

• The ability to legally own land

• The process a person must go through in order to vote

• Unfair difference in the treatment of people

The years after the Civil War, when Congress passed laws to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union, were called -

• Reconstruction

• Urbanization

• Segregation

• Colonization

The southern states legally separated the races and reinforced prejudices held by whites when they passed -

• sharecropping laws

• "Jim Crow" laws

• separate governments

• Freedmen's Bureau

What major transportation system was key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry after the Civil War?

• Railroads

• Trucks

• Inland ports

• Airlines