Reconstruction in Virginia Quiz

What was the main goal of the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia after the Civil War?

• To segregate African Americans and whites

• To provide legal assistance to African Americans

• To help former slaves and poor whites with food, housing, and education

• To enforce Jim Crow laws in the South

What were Jim Crow laws primarily designed to do?

• Promote racial equality

• Provide jobs for African Americans

• Enforce segregation between blacks and whites

• Support the Freedmen's Bureau

What does Reconstruction mean?

• To break down.

• To build again.

• To crash again.

Which of the following services was NOT provided by the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia?

• Establishing schools

• Providing medical care

• Enforcing voting rights for African Americans

• Distributing food and clothing

How did Jim Crow laws affect African Americans' voting rights?

• They expanded voting rights for African Americans

• They had no effect on voting rights

• They restricted voting rights through literacy tests and poll taxes

• They allowed women to vote for the first time

During Reconstruction, freedmen
and poor white farmers rented land
from a landowner with a share of the
crops. What was this system called?

• Segregation

• Separation

• Sharecropping

• Sharing

What was one of the long-term effects of Jim Crow laws in Virginia?

• Increased economic opportunities for African Americans

• Improved relations between races

• Legalized racial segregation that lasted for decades

• Immediate desegregation of schools

During Reconstruction, what group of people could vote?

• only white men

• only white and black men

• men and women

• men of all races

Jim Crow laws affected what other group of people?

• Chinese Americans

• Native Americans

• White Americans

• African Americans

What stimulated the growth of cities in Virginia?

• coal

• railroads

• the underground railroad