Reconstruction Test (VS.8)

What was the period called following the Civil War?

• Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Rebuild the USA

Reconstruction was the time period in which Congress passed laws to help rebuild the country and make it better again.

• True

• False

Match what was happening in VA during Reconstruction.

• were closed

• Money

• to be rebuilt

• Banks

• were destroyed

• Businesses needed

• were destroyed

• Roads, bridges, and railroads

• had no value

• Plantations and crops

What was the name of the government agency that was made to help people during Reconstruction.

• Reconstruction Bureau

• Help our Citizens

• Freedmen's Bureau

Organize the items that the newly freed slaves needed help with after the Civil War. (You will need to select 5 things!)

Groups:

(a) Needed Help With

,

(b) Didn't Need Help With

• Education

• Friends

• Animals

• Jewelry

• Jobs

• Food

• Housing/Homes

• Clothing

Sharecropping is when a person takes ALL of someone crops.

• True

• False

What was the system common in VA in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner and promised to pay the owner with a share of the crops?

• Sharecropping

• Sharing the Land

• Crop Friends

During Reconstruction, African Americans were not able to hold public office.

• True

• False

During Reconstruction, black men could not vote.

• True

• False

During Reconstruction, men of all races (black and white) could vote.

• True

• False