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WorksheetsVS.8 Reconstruction Flashcards
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 23mins
The _________ and _________that had been promised to African Americans were slowly taken away after Reconstruction.
food
education
freedoms
rights
clothing
housing
rights
votes
What was the result of Freedom's First Generation?
Some of the white Americans were sent to college to be better educated.
Many African Americans achieved excellence and some became doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
Many Native Americans were able to get an education and earn a living doing various jobs.
Virginians were allowed to become doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
African Americans saw __________ as a path to greater opportunities.
Reconstruction
the economy
sharecropping
education
During Reconstruction, African Americans faced what 3 problems?
1. injustice
2. increased violence
3. discrimination
1. freedom
2. rights.
3. votes
1. segregation
2. discrimination
3. poor health care
1. industries
2. poverty
3. lack of food
African Americans pushed for education for their children. This directly resulted in what?
Freedom's Housing Act
Freedom's First Generation
First Americans Education Act
Virginians Education First Agreement
What is the period following the Civil War called? Congress had passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union.
Education
Segregation
Jim Crow
Reconstruction
Specifically, who faced serious problems in rebuilding the state after the Civil War?
Americans
Virginians
Confederates
Whites
During Reconstruction hundreds of thousands of freed African Americans needed what?
freedoms
jobs
rights
clothing
rights
food
pets
housing
education
clothing
food
jobs
education
food
freedoms
During Reconstruction, Virginia's __________ was in ruins.
economy
education
freedoms
sharecropping
Give 4 economic problems Virginians faced during Reconstruction.
1. Freedmen's Bureau
2. Sharecropping
3. Banks were closed
4. People needed jobs
1. Businesses were closed
2. Banks were closed
3. Railroads were destroyed
4. schools were opened
1. violence
2. Money had no value
3. Railroads, bridges, and crops were destroyed
4. Businesses were closed
1. Money had no value
2. Banks were closed
3. Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed
4. Businesses needed to be rebuilt
Name 3 measures that were taken during Reconstruction to resolve Virginia's problems.
1. Freedmen's Bureau
2. Sharecropping
3. African Americans pushed for education for their children
1. Jim Crow Laws
2. Sharecropping
3. Freedmen's Bureau
1. Money had no value
2. Railroads were opened
3. Businesses needed to be rebuilt
1. Jim Crow Laws
2. Freedmen's Bureau
3. Banks were reopened
What was a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia?
Freedom's First Generation
Freedmen's Bureau
Jim Crow Laws
Sharecropping
Name the system common in Virginia after the war in which freed men and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a share of the crops.
education
segregation
reconstruction
sharecropping
This is the separation of people, usually based on race or religion.
economy
segregation
discrimination
education
What is the unfair difference in the treatment of people called?
discrimination
segregation
Jim Crow Laws
violence
During Reconstruction, who began to have power in Virginia's government?
females
poor whites
African Americans
teenagers
During Reconstruction, who had the right to vote?
Women of all races
Men of all races
American Indians
All females
After Reconstruction, the gains made by African Americans were lost because of what laws passed by southern states?
First Generation Laws
Jim Crow Laws
New American Laws
John Brown Laws
Jim Crow Laws legally established segregation, or ____________ of the races, and reinforced prejudices held by whites.
separation
discrimination
education
industries
Name 4 ways the Jim Crow Laws affected the lives of African Americans and American Indians. Choose the two correct answers.
* being forced to use separate, poor-quality facilities and services, such as drinking fountains, restrooms, and restaurants
*attending separate schools
*difficulty voting or holding public office
*attending the same schools as poor white students
*experiencing unfair poll taxes and voting tests that were established to keep them from voting
*difficulty voting or holding public office
*attending separate schools
*using the same public restrooms
Sharecropping was an unfair practice that often resulted in the sharecroppers being ______________.
slaves
made to work the land and not their own
unable to marry
locked in poverty
Who was an important African American leader before, during and after the Civil War?
Nat Turner
John Mercer Langston
Langston Hughes
John Brown
John Mercer Langston was a (a) black from Louisa County, Virginia. He was educated in (b) and became a (c) in the (d) .
Virginia abolitionist who participated in the Underground Railroad in Ohio.
John Mercer Langston
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Robert E. Lee
John Mercer Langston recruited (a) volunteers to serve as soldiers in the (b) Army during the Civil War.
John Mercer Langston returned to Virginia after the Civil War and became the President of a new black college in Petersburg later known as ___________.
Virginia Tech
University of Virginia
Virginia State University
Radford University
John Mercer Langston was the first African American elected to the _________________.
School Board of Louisa County
U.S. Congress from Virginia
House of Representatives
Board of Education
Segregation and discrimination had an impact on: Choose all correct answers.
housing, employment, and education
food choices
clothing styles
health care, political representation
Who led the fight for the first public school system in Virginia?
free whites
white Virginians
black Virginians
American Indians
Other parts of Virginia grew as other ___________developed.
banks
cities
railroads
industries
After the Civil War and Reconstruction, Virginia's __________ grew with people, businesses, and factories.
industries
cities
classrooms
railroads
What were a key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry? They facilitated the growth of small towns into cities.
banks
railroads
schools
offices
What was mined in the Appalachian Plateau after the Civil War?
iron
gold
salt
coal
As Virginia began to grow, the need for better what increased?
roads
houses
pet shops
radio stations
After the Civil War, what began to grow and contribute to Virginia's economy? (a) (b) (c) (d)
__________ farming and the manufacture of ___________ products became important Virginia industries.
Tobacco
tobacco
Cotton
tobacco
Tobacco
potato
Potato
cotton
After Reconstruction, the gains African Americans had were taken away through (a) , (b) , and (c) .
