Reconstruction VS.8a-b

What were the results of the Civil War on the economy of Virginia?

• Railroads, bridges, and food sources were destroyed.

• Virginia's economy flourished due to increased trade.

• The state became a major industrial hub.

• Confederate money had significant value.

Name the federal government agency created to help freed African Americans who lacked food, medical care, and education.

• The Freedmen’s Bureau

• The Civil Rights Commission

• The Department of Education

• The Social Security Administration

Freedmen and poor farmers rented land from white landowners in exchange for a portion of the crops grown as payment.

• sharecropping

• tenant farming

• crop rotation

• land leasing

What was the main purpose of the Reconstruction Era?

• To rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union.

• To establish a new government in the southern states.

• To promote industrialization in the North.

• To grant independence to former slaves.

What two factors prevented African Americans from voting?

• Poll taxes

• Literacy tests

• Voter ID laws

• Civic education requirements

What term means an unfair difference in the treatment of people?

• inequality

• discrimination

• prejudice

• bias

What is the CAUSE of these effects?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Railroads

Segregation means

• judging people unfairly

• the belief that one dominant race is better than others

• separating people based on differences, usually of race or religion

• reconstruction

Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color
• religion
• race (color of the skin)
• economic status

What areas were racially segregated?

• Schools

• Housing

• Public Transportation

• All of these answers