VS8: Reconstruction

What is the time period, after the Civil War, that laws were passed to help Virginia rebuild?

• restoration

• reconstruction

• revolution

What did the newly freed slaves need after the Civil War was over?

• food

• clothing

• housing

• education

• all four of these

The freed African Americans did not want to be educated.

• True

• False

After the Civil War, Virginia's economy was in trouble because ...

• England no longer wanted to buy cotton

• France no longer wanted to buy cotton

• the Union put all of the South's leaders in jail

• banks were closed and money had no value

Starting over in Virginia was difficult in 1865 because ...

• electric lines and water pipes were cut and broken

• the soil was so damaged that nothing would grow

• the Union wouldn't let stores reopen

• plantations, railroads, and crops were destroyed

The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to ...

• provide food, schools, and medical care to the ex-slaves

• transport the freed African Americans back to Africa

• open factories and take over plantations

• free the slaves that did not know they were free

This cartoon represents a common system in Virginia after the Civil War called ...

• crop-raising

• sharecropping

• agribusiness

• homesteading

Sharecropping allowed freedmen and poor white farmers pay rent to landowners by ...

• sharing the landowner's chores such as cleaning and cooking

• growing vegetables for the landowner's dinners

• giving half of their crops to the landowners

• giving the landowners all of their profits from their crop

Segregation means ...

• to separate people based on their race or religion

• to separate people based on their bad choice of fashion

• an unfair difference in the treatment of people

• treat people fairly because all races are equal

An example of segregation is ...

• everyone attends the same school together

• a store owner won't hire Native Americans

• black and white children have to attend different schools

• short people choose not to attend an event for tall people