Reconstruction Unit

A government agency that provided food, education and healthcare to freed African Americans

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

• Industrialization

The separation of people based on race or religion

• Jim Crow Laws

• Discrimination

• Segregation

• Sharecropping

Southern laws that limited the rights and freedoms of African Americans and American Indians

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Segregation

An unfair difference in the treatment of people

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation

• Sharecropping

• Discrimination

A system where freedmen rented land from landowners and paid the landowners a share of the crops

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Sharecropping

• Slavery

• Reconstruction

The period of time following the Civil War

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• Discrimination

Which of the following is NOT a problem Virginia faced during Reconstruction?

• Railroads and bridges were destroyed

• Banks were closed

• Industry grew too quickly

• Money had no value

Who began to gain power in Virginia's government and could finally vote during reconstruction?

• African Americans

• Native Americans

• European immigrants

• Women

Which of these does not describe an activity of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• Helped build over 200 schools

• Made laws to protect freedment

• Provided freedmen with medical care

• Started colleges for African Americans

After Reconstruction, what established segregation and reinforced prejudices held by whites?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Industrialization