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What took place during Reconstruction?

• northern soldiers rebuilt the southern cities

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

• the south seceded to form the Confederate States of America

• the Civil War was fought

The Freedmen's Bureau...

• rented out land to the newly freed slaves

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

• provided money to poor white farmers

• Provided money and land to for freed African Americans

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.

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

• Germans and Scots-Irish

• people in the North

• Colonial Americans

• American Indians

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

• coal mines

• farmers markets

• agricultural centers

• cities

What method of transportation moved coal across Virginia?

• Trucks

• Ships

• Streetcars

• Railroads

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

• Coastal Plain

• Blue Ridge Mountains

• Appalachian Plateau

• Piedmont

Segregation means-

• separating people based on race or religion

• bringing people together

• separating the North from the South

• having rules and rights

discrimination is...

• an unfair difference in the treatment of people

• allowing everyone the right to vote

• renting land a paying with a share of the crops

• a government agency that gave food, education and medical care to those in need

This is the name of the period of time the followed the end of the Civil War.

• Building Era

• Reconstruction Era

• Rebuild Era

• Post Civil War Era