Reconstruction, VS 8

Reconstruction is the period directly (a)   the Civil War

What were two purposes of Reconstruction?

• to punish the southern states for their role in the Civil War

• to rebuild the country

• to establish "Jim Crow" Laws

• to bring formerly confederate states back into the United States

What is NOT true about Reconstruction?

• It was a time of greater freedom and opportunities for Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color

• It was a time when the government provided resources, including food, housing, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others.

• It was a time when southern states seceded from the Union

• It was a time when injustice, discrimination, and violence existed against newly freed African Americans and other People of Color

Check problems faced by Virginians during Reconstruction

• Money had no value

• Railroads, bridges, farms, crops, roads were destroyed

• Banks were closed

• Businesses needed to be rebuilt

• African Americans and other People of Color faced violence and discrimination

Check all that is true about John Mercer Langston

• He was a famous doctor born in Virginia and educated in Ohio

• He was an abolitionist who also recruited Blacks to serve in the Union Army

• He was the first African American elected to the US Congress from Virginia

• He was a lawyer and became the president of a college that came to be known as Virginia State University

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• It was an agency to help former enslavers get more money

• It was a federal government agency meant to help women get the vote

• It was a Virginia government agency helping all those affected by the Civil War

• It was a federal government agency providing food, schooling, and medical care to newly freed Blacks and others

(a)   was a common practice after the Civil War, in which newly freed African Americans, People of Color, and poor Whites rented land from landowners by promising to pay with a share of crops grown on the land rented.

Freedoms gained from the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the Constitution, passed during Reconstruction include:

• making slavery illegal

• giving citizenship to all African Americans born in the United States

• making it illegal to keep Black men from voting

• granting all citizens the right to vote

Answer explanation

Women are not given the right to vote until 1920 with the 19th amendment.

What is NOT true about Jim Crow Laws?

• They ended racism and prejudice in the South

• They kept racism alive by keeping discrimination, segregation, and other unfair treatment legal

• They affected Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color

• They effectively kept many Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color from voting and holding public offices with the use of poll taxes and voting tests

After the Civil War, _________ were responsible for many changes in transportation and the growth of cities

• railroads

• Poll Taxes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• airplanes