VS.8 Quiz

The period following the Civil War when Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union was called

• Restoration

• Reconstruction

• Freedman's Bureau

• Sharecropping

What problem did Virginians face during Reconstruction?

• banks were closed

• money had no value

• railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed

• all of these

What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South?

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Welfare System

• Freedman's Bureau

• Sharecropping

What system after the Civil War allowed freedmen and poor white farmers to rent land by promising to pay with a share of the crops?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Sharecropping

• Welfare System

• FBI

Who gained power in Virginia’s government and could finally vote during Reconstruction?

• Spanish American men

• American Indian men

• Women

• African American men

After Reconstruction, what established segregation, or separation of the races, and reinforced prejudices held by whites?

• Freedmen’s Bureau

• Sharecropping

• “Jim Crow” Laws

• Industrialization

What could African Americans do if they paid a poll tax and passed a literacy test?

• buy a house

• vote in an election

• get an education

• get a job

What was a key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry after Reconstruction?

• streetcars

• automobiles

• railroads

• airplanes

What industry developed in the Appalachian Plateau that became a source of income for residents?

• furniture making

• coal mining

• textile weaving

• tobacco farming

What is the separation of people, usually based on color or religion?

• segregation

• discrimination

• prejudice

• justice