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Unit 8 – Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What word means the separation of people, usually based on race or religion?

a)

Discrimination

b)

Segregation

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Prejudice

2.

During Reconstruction, freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner with a share of the crops. What was this system called?

a)

Share Farming

b)

Tobacco Farming

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Share system

3.

What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South?

a)

Freedwoman Bureau

b)

Segregation

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Freedman’s Bureau

4.

Describe Virginia’s economy during Reconstruction. Money ___________ Banks were _______________, _____________, ____________, ___________, and ___________ were destroyed

a)

Was worthless Closed, Railroads, bridges, crops, and plantations

b)

Was great,

Opened, Railroads, bridges, crops, and plantations

c)

Was excellent, Closed, Railroads, bridges, crops, and small farms.

d)

Was worthless, opened, Railroads, bridges, crops, and plantations

5.

What 5 problems did freed slaves face after the Civil War?

a)

Lack of shoes, food, clothing, jobs, and education

b)

Lack of housing, food, clothing, jobs, and books

c)

Lack of computers, food, clothing, jobs, and education

d)

Lack of housing, food, clothing, jobs, and education

6.

What two specific reasons did Congress pass laws after the Civil War?

a)

1. To rebuild the North

2. To reunite the South with the North

b)

1. To rebuild the Richmond only.

2. To reunite the South with the North

c)

1. To destroy the country

2. To reunite the South with the North

d)

1. To rebuild the country

2. To reunite the South with the North

7.

What was the rebuilding period after the Civil War called?

a)

Rebuild

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Reconstructive

d)

Preconstruction

8.

What word means the unfair difference in the treatment of people?

a)

Injustice

b)

Segregation

c)

Discrimination

d)

Nothing

9.

During Reconstruction, what group of people began to have power in Virginia’s government?

a)

Whites

b)

Indians

c)

African Americans

d)

Irish

10.

During Reconstruction, what group of people could vote?

a)

Men of all races

b)

Whites

c)

African American

d)

Indians

11.

What laws passed by southern states caused freed slaves to lose the power they gained after Reconstruction?

a)

Jaws Laws

b)

Jims laws

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Crow Laws

12.

Jim Crow laws affected what other group of people?

a)

Whites

b)

Spanish

c)

Irish

d)

American Indians

13.

Give 2 examples of the Jim Crow Laws Established _______________ and Reinforced_______________

a)

Hate

Discrimination (prejudice held by whites)

b)

Segregation Discrimination (prejudice held by whites)

c)

Segregation Injustice

d)

Prejudice Discrimination

14.

Under the Jim Crow laws, what 2 unfair practices were established to prevent African Americans from voting?

a)

Poll taxes and voting tests

b)

Poll taxes and Police

c)

Free Vote and free to hold office

d)

Free Schools and Free Food

15.

African Americans found it very difficult to _____________ or to __________

a)

Eat or Farm

b)

Vote or hold office

c)

To use computers or learn

d)

To build or leave the state

16.

African American were forced to use ___________________

a)

Separate streets

b)

Separate computers

c)

Separate drinking fountains

d)

Separate plantations

17.

After Reconstruction, Virginia grew in what 3 ways

a)

Small farms, Business Factories

b)

People, Railroad , computers

c)

Cars, trains, ships

d)

People, Business , Factories

18.

What means of transportation was a key factor to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry in Virginia?

a)

Buses

b)

Cars

c)

Railroads

d)

Bikes

19.

What stimulated the growth of cities in Virginia?

a)

Internet

b)

Cars

c)

Farms

d)

Railroads

20.

Give 2 examples of items made in factories after the Civil War and Reconstruction.

a)

Clothing and Furniture

b)

Shoes and phones

c)

Cars and Bikes

d)

Computers and Books

21.

What city became a railroad center?

a)

Roanoke

b)

Alexandria

c)

Woodbridge

d)

Richmond

22.

Coal deposits were mined in the _____________________

a)

Washington DC

b)

Appalachian Plateau

c)

Coastal Plains Region

d)

Piedmont Region

23.

Coal deposits in what county became a source of livelihood for the people in southwest Virginia?

a)

Neabsco

b)

Tazewell

c)

Cumberland Gap

d)

Richmond

24.

Virginia needed more and better what to accommodate cars and other transportation throughout the state?

a)

Roads

b)

People

c)

Citizens

d)

Car

25.

What product and industry became important to Virginia after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

a)

Squash

b)

Tobacco

c)

Beans

d)

Corn