Reconstruction & Massive Resistance

Select the four problems faced by Virginians during Reconstruction.

• Money had no value.

• Businesses needed to be rebuilt.

• Slaves all moved westward.

• Bridges, railroads, and plantations were all destroyed.

• Banks were closed.

What effect would complete this chart?

• African American and white children attend the same school.

• New jobs and opportunities.

• More African Americans held public offices.

• Unfair poll taxes.

Look at the picture above. What is the name of the system he is describing.

• Indentured Service

• Sharecropping

• Freedman's Bureau

• Slavery

These photographs best illustrate the effects of...

• desegregation

• equality

• discrimination

• integration

What organization provided food, schools, and medical care for African Americans?

• Massive Resistance

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

What industry developed in the shaded region of the map, after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

• steel production

• furniture production

• tabacco farming

• coal mining

Virginia needed better roads during the reconstruction period because...

• cities and towns were growing and Virginia's population was growing.

• dirt roads were too dusty.

• the old roads were dirty.

• people didn't want to ride trains.

The Massive Resistance Movement...

• fought to resist segregation.

• fought to resist integration of public schools.

• helped to keep school open in the south.

• only affected the northern states.

Which statement best supports this quote from Harry F. Byrd Sr.?

• He wanted to abolish Jim Crow laws.

• He supported the ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education.

• He supported segregation in Virginia.

• He was against the Massive Resistance.