Reconstruction 8ABC Virginia Studies

The Freedmen’s Bureau —

• Provided money to poor white farmers that was used to rent land from wealthy plantation owners

• Provided transportation to freed African Americans who wanted to travel to the North

• Provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia

• Provided land to farmers whose plantations were destroyed during the war

All of the following were made available to freed men and women by the Freedmen's

Bureau EXCEPT —

• Land

• Food

• Medical care

• Education

As a result of the Civil War —

• The Union states rejoined the Confederacy and Reconstruction began

• the Union states refused to allow the Confederate states to rejoin

• the Confederate states rejoined the Union and reconstruction began

• the Confederate states refused to rejoin the Union and slavery continued

Which area of the United States required much physical

rebuilding after the Civil War?

• North

• South

• East

• West

Which best describes what took place during Reconstruction?

• Factories were built in the South to create industries that were similar to those in the North.

• President Lincoln ordered the northern soldiers to rebuild the southern cities that were destroyed

• Congress passed laws to help rebuild the country and bring the confederate states into the Union.

• The southern states seceded from the Union and formed the "Confederate States of America."

Sharecropping was a system common after the Civil War in which freedmen and poor

whites —

• owned their own land and sold their crops at market

• purchased a piece of land to raise cash crops

• entered into contracts to work on farms in America after leaving England

• rented land and promised to pay the landowners with crops

Jim Crow laws had an effect on the lives of African Americans and —

• Germans and Scots-Irish settlers

• South Americans

• Colonial Americans

• American Indians

After Reconstruction, African American children and white children living in the South

had to eat at separate restaurants. This is an example of —

• integration

• voting

• desegregation

• segregation

As a freed African American, William most likely found it difficult to vote because of —

• the Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• desegregation

After Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws were passed mainly in —

• northern states

• eastern states

• southern states

• western states