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.