Reconstruction

What kind of farming and products became important in VA?

• cotton

• tobacco

• peanuts

• corn

The Freedmen's Bureau was ____.

• a group that enforced antislavery laws in the South

• a committee formed in the North to help rebuild the South

• a government agency that provided education and services to freed slaves

• a group of abolitionists from Virginia

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

• railroads

• tractors

• automobiles

• covered wagons

The term Reconstruction refers to the _____.
 

• plan to restructure the government in the North

• new government organized in the South

• rebuilding of the South

• freeing of all slaves

With the growth of the railroads _____.
 

• more people and businesses came to Virginia and helped the state grow

• coal-mining companies could no longer ship coal to the port of Norfolk

• many people left Virginia to avoid the noise and smoke from the locomotives

• many small towns in Virginia stayed the same size

Which of these was not true in Virginia after the Civil War? 

• Railroads, bridges and plantations were destroyed

• Money had no value

• Freed slaves had good jobs, houses and plenty of food

• Banks were closed

How did sharecropping work?

• Poor farmers were given land to own and farm from old plantations

• Poor farmers paid money to rent land

• Poor farmers rented land and paid for it with a part of the crop

• Rich farmers gave away their land to poor farmers.