Reconstruction and Segregation Worksheet

What were the laws called that legally established segregation, or separation of the races?

• Reconstruction laws

• Poll tax laws

• Jim Crow laws

• Rebuilding laws

What positive outcome of Reconstruction does this image of United States senators and representatives illustrate?

• Banks were closed.

• African Americans could hold office.

• Industry and technology helped Virginia grow.

• African Americans began to have power in state and national governments.

needed housing, education, clothing, food, jobs
faced injustice
violence discrimination

What would be a good title for this list?

• Problems faced by freed African Americans during Reconstruction

• Reasons for the Civil War

• Impact of growth of cities and railroads in Virginia

• Solutions to rebuild Virginia's economy after the Civil War

What does this image illustrate?

• Discrimination in housing opportunities

• Desegregation in education

• Integration due to Reconstruction amendments

• Segregation based on "Jim Crow" laws

African Americans and American Indians were prevented from voting through the use of _____

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

• secret voting locations

• proof of jobs

Developed after the Civil War A system with unfair practices Freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners Renters paid the owners with a share of the crops

What is described in the list?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Poll Taxes

The Plessy v. Ferguson decision said segregation was allowed as long as things were supposed to be 'equal.'

• True

• False

The decision in Plessy v. Ferguson affected daily life in places like schools, transportation, and public spaces.

• True

• False

After Plessy v. Ferguson, African Americans and Indigenous people experienced more equal opportunities.

• True

• False

Free black man from Louisa County, VA

Abolitionist who worked to end slavery in Ohio

First African American elected to the US Congress from Virginia 

Who is described in the list?

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• John Mercer Langston

• Ulysses S. Grant