Rebuilding Virginia

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

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

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

What problems did Virginians face after the Civil War?

• African Americans needed jobs, money had no value, banks were closed, there was widespread destruction

• American Indians needed jobs, value of Confederate money decreased, banks had long lines, there was widespread destruction

• African Americans needed food, few people had money, schools were overcrowded, crops needed to be picked

• Whites needed education, money and banks were burned in Richmond, bridges were collapsing

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

How did amendments change the Constitution during Reconstruction?

• new amendments made it possible for women to vote

• new amendments ended slavery and granted citizenship to former slaves

• new amendments granted citizenship to all people living in America

• new amendments prevented any future Civil Wars