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WorksheetsReconstruction Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Sharecropper Plantation Owner
A B
Which of the following should be added to replace A on the chart?
Kept less than half of the crops at harvest
Received money from land owner to purchase supplies
Received more than half of the crops at harvest
Lived rent free on the land provided by the owner
Which purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau does the picture most likely illustrate?
Offering medical care
Supplying clothing
Providing an education
Making food available
The following are reasons Virginia's economy was in ruins following the Civil War except :
Money had no value
the closing of banks
the destruction of railroads, bridges, crops
the increased value of money
Why was the Freedmen's Bureau created?
To help new immigrants
To help southern soliders
To help former slaves
To help plantation owners
What is the best title for this diagram?
Indentured Servitude
Plantation Life
The Sharecropping System
How to Become a Wealthy Farmer
Which time period belongs in the circle?
Great Depression
Colonization
Reconstruction
Westward expansion
This diagram most likely suggests that most Virginians in the twentieth century moved from —
rural to urban areas
less populated cities to heavily populated cities
heavily populated cities to less populated cities
urban to rural areas
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion is called?
discrimination
segregation
The period of time after the Civil War is known as _______
Great Depression
Recontruction
American Revolution
Sharecropping
Newly freed African Americans needed all of the following except?
Internet
Housing
Education
Clothing
The unfair difference in the treatment of people is called?
discrimination
segregation
Which scenario below is an example of the Jim Crow laws?
A woman was upset that she was not allowed to vote at this time.
An African American man was unable to vote because of an unfair poll tax and reading test.
A white girl and an African American girl were able to use the same water fountain.
African American, American Indian, and white children attended the same schools.
After Reconstruction, African American children and white children living in the South had to eat at separate restaurants. This is an example of —
segregation
voting
integration
desegregation
After Reconstruction, many African Americans were stopped from voting by
age limits
church laws
colonial rules
poll taxes
After Reconstruction, which industry most encouraged the growth of towns and cities throughout Virginia?
Lumber
Shipbuilding
Railroad
Steel
Which of these changes caused Virginia’s economy to grow after the Civil War?
Tobacco and cotton grew more quickly
Factories hired more workers
People moved away from the cities
Railroads and industries expanded
Which important industry developed in the shaded area on the map?
Steel production
Tobacco farming
Coal mining
Furniture production
Railroads helped turn small towns into —
farms
coal mines
cities
governments
The item in Figure 1 was first discovered in which location on Figure 2?
4
2
1
3
What type of system is this man describing?
Sharecropping
Slavery
Co-farming
Plantation
The Freedmen’s Bureau —
provided land to farmers whose plantations were destroyed during the war
provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia
provided transportation to freed African Americans who wanted to travel to the North
provided money to poor white farmers that was used to rent land from wealthy plantation owners
Which was not a problem faced by Virginians after the Civil War?
Many railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed.
All of the banks were closed because Confederate money had no value.
Many plantation owners were without jobs as a result of the factories being burned.
Millions of freed slaves needed housing, education, clothing, food, and jobs.
This farmer is describing problems in the South during the —
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Great Depression
Reconstruction
I am from Louisa County in Virginia. I was President of Virginia State University, recruited black volunteers for the Union Army, helped with the Underground railroad, and was the first African American elected to Congress from Virginia. Who am I?
Nat Turner
John Brown
Robert Smalls
John Mercer Langston
During the days of Jim Crown Laws, African Americans were forced to use all of the following separate facilites except:
Drinking Fountains
Restrooms
Schools
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