VS 8a-c Reconstruction

What method of transportation moved coal across Virginia?

• Railroads

• Canals

• Horse-drawn wagons

• Airplanes

Segregation means-

• separating people based on race or religion

• uniting people of different backgrounds

• promoting equality among all individuals

• discriminating against a specific gender

What took place during Reconstruction?

• Laws were passed to rebuild and bring the Confederate states back into the Union

• The Southern states were permanently banned from joining the Union

• All Confederate leaders were executed for their roles in the Civil War

• The Union was dissolved and new countries were formed

discrimination is...

• an unfair difference in the treatment of people

• a legal term for equality

• a type of social justice

• a method of conflict resolution

After the Civil War, coal was discovered in which region?

• Coastal Plain

• Blue Ridge Mountains

• Appalachian Plateau

• Piedmont

Jim Crow Laws had an effect on the lives of African Americans and...

• Asian Americans

• Hispanic Americans

• American Indians

• European Americans

The growth of railroads helped turn small towns into...

• villages

• cities

• hamlets

• suburbs

Sharecropping was a system where freedmen and poor whites...

• rented land and paid the landowner with a share of their crops

• worked for wages on the landowner's farm

• owned their own land and crops

• were given land for free by the government

The Freedmen's Bureau...

• provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia.

• was established to promote the interests of Southern plantation owners.

• focused solely on the education of freed slaves in the North.

• was a military organization that enforced laws in the South.

Which example describes an example of the Jim Crow Laws? A woman was upset that she could not vote at this time. It was difficult for African American men to vote because of poll taxes and literacy tests. An African American boy and a white boy went to the same school. A Native American girl and a white girl drank from the same water fountain.

• A woman was upset that she could not vote at this time.

• It was difficult for African American men to vote because of poll taxes and literacy tests.

• An African American boy and a white boy went to the same school.

• A Native American girl and a white girl drank from the same water fountain.