(H) Reconstruction

When the Civil War was abolished and the slaves were finally freed, what was their main problem?

• they did not have what they needed to take care of themselves

• they could not find their families

• slaveowners ignored the law and kept them as slaves anyway

• people treated them mean

What did many blacks do by the 1880s after leaving the South for new states in the west?

• became cowboys

• built all black towns

• became slaves for new masters

• both a and b

What did many soldiers find when they returned home from the war?

• their families had moved away

• their farms and businesses were ruined

• everything as it was when they left

• none of these are right

What was it called when both freedmen and poor white farmers rented small plots of land from a bigger landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of whatever they grew

• Abandoned Land owners

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Welfare Recipients

• Sharecroppers

After the Civil War, VA's economy was in ruins because

• banks were closed

• men were disabled and could not work

• businesses needed to be rebuilt

• all of these

Because many sharecroppers went deep in debt, some referred to it as

• "another form of slavery"

• "the end to happiness"

• "a trick of the white man"

• "broke man's blues"

What did "Black Codes" do?

• allow blacks to communicate secretly

• stated that all blacks must have freedom papers to prove that they were free

• allowed the very rich to continue to have slaves

• recognized the end of slavery but limited the rights of African Americans

"Abandoned lands" were

• former plantations divided into plots that was sold to other countries

• former plantations divided into plots that rich people could buy

• former plantations divided into plots that poor people could rent

• former plantations divided into plots that Indians could continue living on

After the Civil War, Congress wrote a new constitutional amendment that did what?

• said all African Americans must be paid for when they were slaves

• made all African Americans citizens

• could make up a set of only for them

• all of these

What was the The Freedmen’s Bureau's main focus?

• providing jobs for former slaves and others in Virginia

• providing food, schools, and medical help for only freed slaves

• providing jobs for people who were always free

• providing food, schools, and medical help for former slaves and others in Virginia