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VS8abc Review

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was discovered in Tazewell County (in southwest Virginia) after the Civil War?

a)

A rare breed of dog

b)

Coal deposits

c)

Cocoa

d)

Leeches

2.

Who gained power in Virginia government during Reconstruction?

a)

American Indians

b)

English

c)

African Americans

d)

Women

3.

What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans, and others in the south after the Civil War?

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

Sharecropping

c)

"Jim Crow" Laws

d)

Reconstruction

4.

What do we call the separation of people based on race or religion?

a)

discrimination

b)

credit

c)

equal rights

d)

segregation

5.

What laws were passed by southern states that established segregation and reinforced prejudice?

a)

Freedmen's

b)

Sharecropping

c)

"Jim Crow" Laws

d)

Reconstruction

6.

______________was the key reason for the expansion of business, agriculture, industry and the growth of small towns in Virginia after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

a)

Railroads

b)

highways

c)

roads

d)

boats

7.

After the Civil War, Confederate money ______________.

a)

had been spent

b)

funded Reconstruction

c)

increased in value

d)

had no value

8.

After the Civil War, Virginia’s economy was __________________.

a)

booming

b)

ruined

c)

fine

d)

unchanged

9.

What do we call the system in which freed men and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner and promised to pay the owner back with a share of the crop?

a)

Bartering

b)

sharecropping

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

d)

Investigation Bureau

10.

After the Civil War, Virginia needed to build more and better ____________ in order to move raw materials to manufacturing centers.

a)

boats

b)

trucks

c)

docks

d)

roads

11.

What is the period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union?

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Civil War

c)

American Revolution

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

12.

After the Civil War all of Virginia’s _______________ were closed.

a)

stores

b)

churches

c)

banks

d)

courts

13.

All _____________ had the right to vote during Reconstruction?

a)

men

b)

women

c)

white men

d)

farmers

14.

Many of the South’s crops, railroads, bridges, and plantations were ______________during the Civil War.

a)

ignored

b)

built

c)

repaired

d)

destroyed