VA Studies 8a

What was the period called following the Civil War when Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union?

• Revolution

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

What problem did Virginians face during Reconstruction?

• Railroad lines were added.

• Confederate money had no value.

• Banks were not closed.

• Crops were planted.

What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South?

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Welfare System

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping System

What system after the Civil War allowed freedmen and poor white farmers to rent land by promising to pay with a share of the crop?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

• Welfare System

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

Which states needed to come back into the Union after the Civil War?

• eastern

• southern

• westen

• northern

What had no value after the Civil War?

• Confederate money

• housing

• Union money

Railroads, bridges, and businesses needed to be rebuilt after the Civil War?

• True

• False

What was the system in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners promising to pay the owners with a share of the crops?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• plantations

• farming

• sharecropping

What 3 things did the Freedmen's Bureau provide?

• housing, farms, and farm equipment

• food, schools, and medical care

• medical care, automobiles, sharecropping

• fields, doctors, and school supplies

When did the Civil War End?

• August 1865

• April 1858

• April 1865

• October 1812