Reconstruction 1

Reconstruction Part 1

VS.8

Open Ended

How does this image relate to the unit we recently learned about in Virginia Studies?

Multiple Select

Check the problems Virginians faced during Reconstruction.

• newly freed African Americans needed housing, education, clothing, food, and jobs

• economy was in good shape

• money had no value and banks were closed

• businesses were open for business but had no customers

• railroads and bridges were destroyed

Multiple Select

Check all of the ways the Freedman's Bureau tried to solve the problems in Virginia after the Civil War.

• provided food and clothing

• provided money to freed slaves

• provided daycare while people worked

• provided medical care and jobs

• provided public schools

Multiple Choice

What was the common system m in Virginia where freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a portion of the crops?

• crop giving

• share cropping

• crop renting

• land sharing

Hear the memories of some people who were the children of sharecroppers.

6:38 min