Reconstruction

Which group was a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves and others in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedman’s Bureau

• United States Department of Justice

• United States Department of Health and Human Services

The period following the Civil War where Congress passed laws to help rebuild the country and help bring the southern states back into the Union is called?

• Reconstruction

• Rebuilding

• Revolution

• Post Civil War

Which is one of the reasons Virginia's economy was in ruins?

• Money had no value

• Railroads, bridges, plantations and crops were destroyed

• Businesses needed to be rebuilt

• All of the above

Which was a system used in the South after the Civil War in which farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a portion of the crop?

• Jim Crow Laws

• 14th Amendment

• Sharecropping

• Agriculture

The Freedmen's Bureau was started by the U.S. government during the Reconstruction of the South. It was created to help former slaves. What was one thing the Bureau was responsible for?

• Punishing former slave owners

• Building schools for former slaves

• Getting the 14th Amendment passed

• Hiding escaped slaves from their owner

Banks were still opened during Reconstruction.

• True

• False

African Americans pushed for _____ of their children. That lead to the Freedom's First Generation of teachers, doctors, and lawyers.

• Housing

• Factory jobs

• Education

• Sharecropping

The Civil War left hundreds of thousands of African Americans needing housing, clothing, education, jobs, and education.

• True

• False