VS.8 Reconstruction VA

What were two purposes of Reconstruction?

• to punish the southern states for their role in the Civil War

• to rebuild the country

• to establish "Jim Crow" Laws

• to bring formerly confederate states back into the United States

Check problems faced by Virginians during Reconstruction

• Money had no value

• Railroads, bridges, farms, crops, roads were destroyed

• Banks were closed

• Businesses needed to be rebuilt

• African Americans and other People of Color faced violence and discrimination

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• It was an agency to help former enslavers get more money

• It was a federal government agency meant to help women get the vote

• It was a Virginia government agency helping all those affected by the Civil War

• It was a federal government agency providing food, schooling, and medical care to newly freed Blacks and others

_______ was a common practice after the Civil War, in which newly freed African Americans, People of Color, and poor Whites rented land from landowners by promising to pay with a share of crops grown on the land rented.

What is NOT true about Jim Crow Laws?

• They ended racism and prejudice in the South

• They kept racism alive by keeping discrimination, segregation, and other unfair treatment legal

• They affected Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color

• They effectively kept many Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color from voting and holding public offices with the use of poll taxes and voting tests

Segregation means

• judging people unfairly

• the belief that one dominant race is better than others

• separating people based on differences, usually of race or religion

• reconstruction

What is the CAUSE of these effects?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Railroads

What is the CAUSE of these effects?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Railroads

What is the CAUSE of these effects?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Railroads

After Reconstruction, the gains African Americans had were taken away through ​ (a)   , ​ (b)   , and ​ (c)   .

• violence
• intimidation
• Jim Crow Laws
• John Brown Laws
• security