Reconstruction

The period following the civil war in which Congress passes laws designed to rebuild the country was called_________

• American Revolution

• Dance Party

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

Millions of freed African Americans needed all of the following during Reconstruction EXCEPT

• Housing

• Food

• Land

• Jobs

One reason the economy was in ruins after the Civil War was because railroads bridges, plantations and crops were________

• destroyed

• sold

• beautiful

• flew away

What was the problem with money after the Civil War?

• You become rich

• You are famous if you have money

• It has no value

What happened to the banks after the Civil War?

• They opened more banks.

• The banks had parties.

• The banks flushed the money down the toilet.

• They were closed.

A government agency that provided food, schools and medical care to free African Americans in Virginia was the_______

• Civil War Help

• Reconstruction Act

• Freedmans Bureau

• Mo Money Fund

After the war, poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a part of the crops. This system of farming was called______.

• Renting Fun

• Sharecropping

• Sharing is caring

• Freed Support

When people are separated based on race or religion it is called______.

• Jimmy Bean

• segregation

• discrimination

• nation

What is called when people are treated differently because of an unfair difference?

• Segregation

• Jimmy Bean

• Civil War

• Discrimination

During Reconstruction, who began to have power in Virginia's government and could now vote?

• children

• woman

• African Americans

• dogs