WorksheetsVS8abc Review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
What was discovered in Tazewell County (in southwest Virginia) after the Civil War?
A rare breed of dog
Coal deposits
Cocoa
Leeches
Who gained power in Virginia government during Reconstruction?
American Indians
English
African Americans
Women
What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans, and others in the south after the Civil War?
Freedmen's Bureau
Sharecropping
"Jim Crow" Laws
Reconstruction
What do we call the separation of people based on race or religion?
discrimination
credit
equal rights
segregation
What laws were passed by southern states that established segregation and reinforced prejudice?
Freedmen's
Sharecropping
"Jim Crow" Laws
Reconstruction
______________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?
Railroads
highways
roads
boats
After the Civil War, Confederate money ______________.
had been spent
funded Reconstruction
increased in value
had no value
After the Civil War, Virginia’s economy was __________________.
booming
ruined
fine
unchanged
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?
Bartering
sharecropping
Freedmen's Bureau
Investigation Bureau
After the Civil War, Virginia needed to build more and better ____________ in order to move raw materials to manufacturing centers.
boats
trucks
docks
roads
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?
Reconstruction
Civil War
American Revolution
Freedmen's Bureau
After the Civil War all of Virginia’s _______________ were closed.
stores
churches
banks
courts
All _____________ had the right to vote during Reconstruction?
men
women
white men
farmers
Many of the South’s crops, railroads, bridges, and plantations were ______________during the Civil War.
ignored
built
repaired
destroyed
