WorksheetsVS8: Reconstruction
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is the time period, after the Civil War, that laws were passed to help Virginia rebuild?
restoration
reconstruction
revolution
What did the newly freed slaves need after the Civil War was over?
food
clothing
housing
education
all four of these
The freed African Americans did not want to be educated.
True
False
After the Civil War, Virginia's economy was in trouble because ...
England no longer wanted to buy cotton
France no longer wanted to buy cotton
the Union put all of the South's leaders in jail
banks were closed and money had no value
Starting over in Virginia was difficult in 1865 because ...
electric lines and water pipes were cut and broken
the soil was so damaged that nothing would grow
the Union wouldn't let stores reopen
plantations, railroads, and crops were destroyed
The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to ...
provide food, schools, and medical care to the ex-slaves
transport the freed African Americans back to Africa
open factories and take over plantations
free the slaves that did not know they were free
This cartoon represents a common system in Virginia after the Civil War called ...
crop-raising
sharecropping
agribusiness
homesteading
Sharecropping allowed freedmen and poor white farmers pay rent to landowners by ...
sharing the landowner's chores such as cleaning and cooking
growing vegetables for the landowner's dinners
giving half of their crops to the landowners
giving the landowners all of their profits from their crop
Segregation means ...
to separate people based on their race or religion
to separate people based on their bad choice of fashion
an unfair difference in the treatment of people
treat people fairly because all races are equal
An example of segregation is ...
everyone attends the same school together
a store owner won't hire Native Americans
black and white children have to attend different schools
short people choose not to attend an event for tall people
Discrimination means to ...
separate people based on race or religion
praise people based on good fashion choices
treat people unfairly because of their differences
everyone works together and is treated equally
During Reconstruction, new Amendments to the Constitution allowed African American men to ...
get free land
leave the U.S.A.
save money
vote in elections
This picture is an example of ...
Joe Bird Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Virginia Code
Larry Bird Laws
What other group of people, besides African Americans, were most effect by Jim Crow laws?
American Indians
White Northerners
Scotch-Irish
Germans
What was the key to the expansion of businesses and the growth of cities in Virginia?
steamboats
canals
airplanes
railroads
This was discovered in Tazewell County and was developed into an important industry in Virginia?
copper
silver
coal
gold
limestone
The growth of Virginia's population and this new invention created a need for ...
dirlling of oil wells in Virginia
more and better roads
more railroad tracks
During reconstruction, African Americans began to have power in Virginia's government.
True
False
African Americans were forced to use separate, poor-quality facilitates, such as restrooms and restaurants. This is an example of ...
Segregation
Discrimination
In which region of Virginia did the coal mining industry develop?
Tidewater
Piedmont
Blue Ridge Mountains
Valley and Ridge
Appalachian Plateau
This gave all men regardless of race the right to vote.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
Freedmen in the south made their living usually by ....
farming
as craftsmen
as house servants
as politicians
The 13th Amendment
gave former slaves citizenship
gave former slaves the right to vote
gave slaves their freedom
gave women the right to vote
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution ...
abolished slavery
gave former slaves their citizenship
gave former slaves the right to vote
gave women the right to own property
The __________Amendment outlawed slavery.
13th
14th
15th
Schools in the south to educate freedmen were set up by the ______________
Union Army
Special Field Order 15
Freedmen's Bureau
What amendment made all people born in the United States citizens?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
What amendment grants all citizens equal protection of the laws?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
