VS.8a Quick Quiz

The period following the Civil War during which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back in the Union was known as-

• Reconstruction
• Constitution
• Reinvention
• Restoration

What did millions of freed African Americans need following the Civil War?

• clothing
• housing
• education
• food
• jobs

True/False: Virginia's economy was in good shape following the Civil War.

• True
• False

What four things were destroyed because of the Civil War and had to be rebuilt?

• bridges
• crops
• plantations
• railroads
• hospitals

What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care to freedmen and others in Virginia?

• welfare system
• sharecropping system
• The Freedmen's Bureau
• Federal Bureau of Investigation

What system became common in Virginia in which people rented lands from landowners using a share of their crops as payment?

• The Freedmen's Bureau
• welfare system
• sharecropping system
• Federal Bureau of Investigation