Reconstruction VSab

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

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

What is the period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union?

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

• American Revolution

• Freedmen's Bureau

After the Civil War all of Virginia’s _______________ were closed.

• stores

• churches

• banks

• courts

All _____________ had the right to vote during Reconstruction?

• men

• women

• white men

• farmers

Many of the South’s crops, railroads, bridges, and plantations were ______________during the Civil War.

• ignored

• built

• repaired

• destroyed