Reconstruction vs

What is NOT true about Reconstruction?

• It was a time of greater freedom and opportunities for Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color

• It was a time when the government provided resources, including food, housing, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others.

• It was a time when southern states seceded from the Union

• It was a time when injustice, discrimination, and violence existed against newly freed African Americans and other People of Color

Check problems faced by Virginians during Reconstruction

• Money had no value

• Railroads, bridges, farms, crops, roads were destroyed

• Banks were closed

• Businesses needed to be rebuilt

• African Americans and other People of Color faced violence and discrimination

Reconstruction is the period directly________ the Civil War

What were two purposes of Reconstruction?

• to punish the southern states for their role in the Civil War

• to rebuild the country

• to establish "Jim Crow" Laws

• to bring formerly confederate states back into the United States

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• It was an agency to help former enslavers get more money

• It was a federal government agency meant to help women get the vote

• It was a Virginia government agency helping all those affected by the Civil War

• It was a federal government agency providing food, schooling, and medical care to newly freed Blacks and others

_______ was a common practice after the Civil War, in which newly freed African Americans, People of Color, and poor Whites rented land from landowners by promising to pay with a share of crops grown on the land rented.

Freedoms gained from the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the Constitution, passed during Reconstruction include:

• making slavery illegal

• giving citizenship to all African Americans born in the United States

• making it illegal to keep Black men from voting

• granting all citizens the right to vote

Answer explanation

Women are not given the right to vote until 1920 with the 19th amendment.

After the Civil War, _________ were responsible for many changes in transportation and the growth of cities

• railroads

• Poll Taxes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• airplanes

"Freedom's First Generation" refers to

• the first generation of Virginians after the Civil War

• Coal Miners

• Sharecroppers

• African Americans pushing for education as a means of freedom and opportunity after the Civil War

What do we call the system in which freed men and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner and promised to pay the owner back with a share of the crop?

• Bartering

• sharecropping

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Investigation Bureau