WorksheetsRebuilding Virginia Test Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 15mins
What did hundreds of thousands of freed African Americans need during Reconstruction? CHOOSE ALL CORRECT ANSWERS!
jobs
clothing
education
food
housing
What is the time after the Civil War called in which Congress passed laws to try to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back to the Union?
Civil Rights Movement
Reconstruction
Integration Movement
Segregation Movement
What federal government agency provided public schools, medical care, and food for freed African Americans?
Congress
Free Health Care Agency
Freeman's Bureau
Free Food Agency
CHOOSE 3 reasons Virginia's economy was in ruins after the Civil War.
Businesses needed to be rebuilt
Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed
Banks were giving away free property
Banks were closed and money had to value
What happened due to African Americans push for education?
Freedom's First Generation and the fight for the first public school system in Virginia
Freedom's First Generation and everyone going to private school
They did not push for education and schooling
They built their own schools and hired their own teachers
When freedmen and poor white farmers rent land by promising to pay the owner with some of their crops it is called (a) . It was unfair and trapped people into poverty.
DURING reconstruction, what rights did African Americans gain?
The right to have equal pay and go to the same schools
The right to equal use of public places such as restaurants, hospitals, etc.
Black women and men could vote
Black and white men could vote and hold office in government
When slavery ended, what problems did African American's face? CHOOSE 3!
They were treated equal and fair
They were treated with discrimination
They were faced with injustice (unfair)
There was more violence against them
The separation of people based on race or religion is called _______________.
segregation
desegregation
integration
equality
AFTER Reconstruction, how did African Americans lose some of their freedoms and rights?
They lost the elections so their laws were not passed
They were treated fairly and did not lose any rights
Many of them lost their jobs
Jim Crow Laws were passed and they were intimidated with violence
CHOOSE 4 important true facts about John Mercer Langston.
He became president of VA State University which was a new black college after the Civil War
He was a free black who became a lawyer and helped the Underground Railroad in Ohio
He was the first black president of the United States
During the Civil War, he encouraged black men to become soldiers for the Union Army
He was the first African American elected to Congress from VA
The unfair difference in the way people are treated is called ______________________.
integration
discrimination
equality
desegregation
CHOOSE 3 examples of Jim Crow Laws
Having to pay unfair poll taxes or take voting tests to keep African Americans from voting which kept them from holding public office
Having to go to the same schools as white students
Having to use or go to separate restrooms, water fountains, and restaurants they were not as nice
Having to go to separate schools
What helped businesses, agriculture, and industry grow and turned small towns into cities?
new farm equipment
exploring space and landing on the moon
breaking away from Great Britain
railroads
For African Americans, housing, jobs, education, health care, and political representation were all greatly effected by these.
equal treatment and fair laws
discrimination and segregation
integrations and job opportunities
sharecropping and poll taxes
What was mined in the Appalachian Plateau?
diamonds
gold
silver
coal
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