VS.8 Reconstruction Test Review

Why did money have no value following the Civil War in Virginia?

• The Union army confiscated it.

• Banks closed after the war.

• The Confederates lost the war.

• Most money was destroyed.

The Freedman's Bureau provided assistance for —

• medical care
• building bridges

• planting crops

• repairing railroads

A system common in Virginia after the war in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a share of the crops. Identify the term being defined.

• Sharecropping
• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedmen's Bureau

Which best describes what took place during Reconstruction?

• President Lincoln ordered the northern soldiers to rebuild the southern cities that were destroyed during the war.

• The southern states seceded from the Union and formed the "Confederate States of America."

• Factories were built in the South to create industries that were similar to those in the North.

• Congress passed laws to help rebuild the country and bring the confederate states into the Union.

The following were most likely disadvantages to being a sharecropper except —

• being self-employed

• increasing the amount of debt owed

• remaining under the control of a land owner

• being cheated out of wages

All of the following were made available to freed men and women by the Freedmen's Bureau except —

• food

• land

• education

• medical care

The Freedmen's Bureau was —

• a group that fought to make slavery legal in the South

• an agency that provided education and other services to newly freed African Americans

• an organization formed to help rebuild the northern states

• a group of Confederate soldiers who were responsible for fighting the northern soldiers

What group was not affected by the establishment of poll taxes during the Jim Crow era?

• American Indians

• Poor whites

• Rich whites

• African Americans

As a freed African American, William most likely found it difficult to vote because of —

• Reconstruction

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• desegregation

• the Jim Crow Laws

After Reconstruction, African American children and white children living in the South had to eat at separate restaurants. This is an example of —

• segregation

• integration

• desegregation

• voting