VA History Review 7

What is the period following the Civil War called? 

During Reconstruction freed African American needed what? 

Give two of the reasons why Virginia's economy was in ruins after the Civil War. 

During Reconstruction, Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the ______

Name the government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia and the rest of the South? 

Name the system common in Virginia after the war in which freed men and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop. 

What is the unfair difference in the treatment of people called? 

After Reconstruction the gains made by African Americans were lost because of what laws passed by southern states? 

What was done through the Jim Crow Laws to keep African Americans from voting? 

Name two ways other than voting restrictions the Jim Crow Laws affected African Americans.