VA Reconstruction

After Reconstruction, what law were passed by southern states that established segregation and made it difficult for African Americans to vote?

• Bill of Rights

• Civil Rights

• Freedman's Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

What was the name of the government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for free slaves and others in VA?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Legislative Branch

• Reconstruction

What was the system in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land and promised to pay the landowner with a share of the crop?

• Farming

• Cropping

• Sharecropping

• Slavery

What do we call the time period after the Civil War in which Congress passed several laws to rebuild the country and bring southern states back into the union?

• amendment

• Reconstruction

• Construction

• sharecropper

What is a sharecropper?

• a change or addition to an existing law

• a farmer who pays for renting a piece of land by paying with a portion of the crop grown on that land

• someone who shares their crops with their friends

How was the South doing after the Civil War?

• Great, everything was fine.

• the economy, railroads, bridges, and plantations were in ruins

Look at the map key. Which symbol represents the biggest influence on the growth of towns and industries after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

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What was the period of rebuilding called after the Civil War ended?

• Desegregation

• Discrimination

• Reconstruction

• Segregation

Western counties of Virginia favored the abolishment of slavery and created the state of ________________.

• Kentucky

• North Carolina

• Tennessee

• West Virginia

After the Civil War, Robert E Lee wanted the people in the South to...

• Reconcile with the rest of the country

• Fight the Union until Reconstruction ends

• Go out West for a better life

• Push for civil rights for the Freedmen