Reconstruction

A government agency that provided food, education, and healthcare to freed African Americans

• The Freedman's Bureau

• The Freedman's Association

• The Social Administration

The separation of people based on race or religion.

• separation

• segregation

• separatism

Southern laws that limited the rights and freedoms of African Americans and American Indians.

• Jim Crow Laws

• John Crow Laws

• Crow Billy laws

An unfair difference in the treatment of people.

• discrimination

• distinction

• difference

A system where freedmen rented land from landowners and paid the landowners a share of the crops.

• farm cropping

• share cropping

• cash cropping

The period following the Civil War when Congress passed laws to help the country rebuild.

• Reconstruction

• Redesign

• Redefinition

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

• Railroads and bridges were destroyed.

• Banks were closed.

• Industry grew too quickly.

• Money had no value.

Which of these does NOT describe an activity of the Freedman's Bureau?

• Helped build over 200 schools

• Made laws to help protect freedman.

• Provided freedman with medical care.

• Started colleges for African Americans.

Who began to gain power in Virginia's government and could finally vote during Reconstruction?

• African Americans

• European immigrants

• American Indians

• women

After Reconstruction, what established segregation and reinforced prejudices held by whites?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow laws

• sharecropping

• industrialization