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VS8: Reconstruction

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the time period, after the Civil War, that laws were passed to help Virginia rebuild?

a)

restoration

b)

reconstruction

c)

revolution

2.

What did the newly freed slaves need after the Civil War was over?

a)

food

b)

clothing

c)

housing

d)

education

e)

all four of these

3.

The freed African Americans did not want to be educated.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

After the Civil War, Virginia's economy was in trouble because ...

a)

England no longer wanted to buy cotton

b)

France no longer wanted to buy cotton

c)

the Union put all of the South's leaders in jail

d)

banks were closed and money had no value

5.

Starting over in Virginia was difficult in 1865 because ...

a)

electric lines and water pipes were cut and broken

b)

the soil was so damaged that nothing would grow

c)

the Union wouldn't let stores reopen

d)

plantations, railroads, and crops were destroyed

6.

The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to ...

a)

provide food, schools, and medical care to the ex-slaves

b)

transport the freed African Americans back to Africa

c)

open factories and take over plantations

d)

free the slaves that did not know they were free

7.

This cartoon represents a common system in Virginia after the Civil War called ...

a)

crop-raising

b)

sharecropping

c)

agribusiness

d)

homesteading

8.

Sharecropping allowed freedmen and poor white farmers pay rent to landowners by ...

a)

sharing the landowner's chores such as cleaning and cooking

b)

growing vegetables for the landowner's dinners

c)

giving half of their crops to the landowners

d)

giving the landowners all of their profits from their crop

9.

Segregation means ...

a)

to separate people based on their race or religion

b)

to separate people based on their bad choice of fashion

c)

an unfair difference in the treatment of people

d)

treat people fairly because all races are equal

10.

An example of segregation is ...

a)

everyone attends the same school together

b)

a store owner won't hire Native Americans

c)

black and white children have to attend different schools

d)

short people choose not to attend an event for tall people

11.

Discrimination means to ...

a)

separate people based on race or religion

b)

praise people based on good fashion choices

c)

treat people unfairly because of their differences

d)

everyone works together and is treated equally

12.

During Reconstruction, new Amendments to the Constitution allowed African American men to ...

a)

get free land

b)

leave the U.S.A.

c)

save money

d)

vote in elections

13.

This picture is an example of ...

a)

Joe Bird Laws

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Virginia Code

d)

Larry Bird Laws

14.

What other group of people, besides African Americans, were most effect by Jim Crow laws?

a)

American Indians

b)

White Northerners

c)

Scotch-Irish

d)

Germans

15.

What was the key to the expansion of businesses and the growth of cities in Virginia?

a)

steamboats

b)

canals

c)

airplanes

d)

railroads

16.

This was discovered in Tazewell County and was developed into an important industry in Virginia?

a)

copper

b)

silver

c)

coal

d)

gold

e)

limestone

17.

The growth of Virginia's population and this new invention created a need for ...

a)

dirlling of oil wells in Virginia

b)

more and better roads

c)

more railroad tracks

18.

During reconstruction, African Americans began to have power in Virginia's government.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

African Americans were forced to use separate, poor-quality facilitates, such as restrooms and restaurants. This is an example of ...

a)

Segregation

b)

Discrimination

20.

In which region of Virginia did the coal mining industry develop?

a)

Tidewater

b)

Piedmont

c)

Blue Ridge Mountains

d)

Valley and Ridge

e)

Appalachian Plateau

21.

This gave all men regardless of race the right to vote.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

22.

Freedmen in the south made their living usually by ....

a)

farming

b)

as craftsmen

c)

as house servants

d)

as politicians

23.

The 13th Amendment

a)

gave former slaves citizenship

b)

gave former slaves the right to vote

c)

gave slaves their freedom

d)

gave women the right to vote

24.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution ...

a)

abolished slavery

b)

gave former slaves their citizenship

c)

gave former slaves the right to vote

d)

gave women the right to own property

25.

The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

26.

Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________

a)

Union Army

b)

Special Field Order 15

c)

Freedmen's Bureau

27.

What amendment made all people born in the United States citizens?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

28.

What amendment grants all citizens equal protection of the laws?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

29.
Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 
a)
Latinos
b)
African-Americans 
c)
Native Americans
d)
Asians
30.
laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities. 
a)
Racist
b)
Prejudice
c)
Discrimination
d)
Jim Crow Laws