Reconstruction of Virginia

What was discovered in Tazewell County (in southwest Virginia) after the Civil War?

• A rare breed of dog

• Coal deposits

• Cocoa

• Leeches

Who gained power in Virginia government during Reconstruction?

• American Indians

• English

• African Americans

• Women

What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans, and others in the south after the Civil War?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

• "Jim Crow" Laws

• Reconstruction

What do we call the separation of people based on race or religion?

• discrimination

• credit

• equal rights

• segregation

What laws were passed by southern states that established segregation and reinforced prejudice?

• Freedmen's

• Sharecropping

• "Jim Crow" Laws

• Reconstruction

______________was the key reason for the expansion of business, agriculture, industry and the growth of small towns in Virginia after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

• Railroads

• highways

• roads

• boats

After the Civil War, Confederate money ______________.

• had been spent

• funded Reconstruction

• increased in value

• had no value

After the Civil War, Virginia’s economy was __________________.

• booming

• ruined

• fine

• unchanged

What do we call the system in which freed men and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner and promised to pay the owner back with a share of the crop?

• Bartering

• sharecropping

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Investigation Bureau

After the Civil War, Virginia needed to build more and better ____________ in order to move raw materials to manufacturing centers.

• boats

• trucks

• docks

• roads