Reconstruction Quiz

Which of the following is NOT a problem faced by Virginians during the Reconstruction?

• Banks were closed

• Freed African Americans were building houses

• Money had no value

• Crops were destroyed

A system common in Virginia after the war in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners promises to pay the land owners with a share of their crops.

• sharecropping

• discrimination

• Reconstruction

The Freedmen's Bureau provided assistance for

• repairing railroads

• planting crops

• building bridges

• medical care

All of the following are effects of the Jim Crow Laws except-

• Unfair taxes and voting taxes were established

• African American and white children attended the same school

• African Americans found it difficult to run or hold public office

• African Americans were forced to use separate drinking fountains and public facilities

The separation of people usually based on race or religion is called-

• segregation

• discrimination

• economy

The Jim Crow Laws impacted American Indians by-

• Giving them more opportunities to hold office

• limiting their freedoms and rights

• allowing them to attend schools with white children

• creating high quality facilities for them to use

Coal mining was prominent in what region of Virginia?

• Valley and Ridge

• Coastal Plains

• Piedmont

• Appalachian Plateau

Small towns in Virginia grew largely in the Reconstruction Era due to-

• agriculture

• railroads

• roadways

• industry

The state in which something is physically destroyed

• ruined

• expanded

• seperation

John Mercer Langston was the first African American from Virginia to be elected in the U.S. congress

• True

• False