VS.8 Reconstruction Review

What farming product has always been an important industry in Virginia?

• cotton
• corn
• tobacco
• wheat

What is the name of the time period following the Civil War called?

• Post-Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Colonial Life
• Revolutionary War

After the Civil War, millions of freed slaves needed all of the following EXCEPT:

• education (school)
• homes
• religion
• jobs

What was discovered in Tazewell County that led to new industries?

• gold
• mineral deposits
• coal deposits
• oil

What was the name of the government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care to freedmen and poor whites?

• Reconstruction Bureau
• Black Codes Bureau
• Jim Crow Bureau
• Freedmen's Bureau

Jim Crow laws effected all the following groups EXCEPT for...

• African Americans
• White Virginians
• American Indians

These were a key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry as they facilitated the growth of small towns into cities

• roads

• railroads

• horse and buggy

• factories

This term means the separation of people, usually based on race or religion.

• prejudice

• segregation

• racism

• discrimination

This term means an unfair difference in the treatment of people.

• prejudice

• segregation

• racism

• discrimination

This system common in the South after the Civil War allowed poor farmers to work on plantation owners' land and to be paid with a share of the crop

• slavery

• farming

• sharecropping