Rebuilding the nation

Question 1

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What is the Reconstruction Period?

Answer 1

The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union

Question 2

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What does the term, ruins mean?

Answer 2

A place that has been destroyed

Question 3

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What does no value mean?

Answer 3

Not worth anything

Question 4

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What does resolve mean?

Answer 4

To fix

Question 5

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What is a government agency?

Answer 5

A group of people hired by the government to work with the people

Question 6

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What is segregation?

Answer 6

The separation of people, usually based on race or religion

Question 7

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What is discrimination?

Answer 7

An unfair difference in the treatment of people

Question 8

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What are prejudices?

Answer 8

Judging a person on their looks without getting to know them

Question 9

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What is a poll tax?

Answer 9

Money people had to pay to vote

Question 10

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What does it mean to hold public office?

Answer 10

To have a job that people vote for (such as governor or president)

Question 11

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What does reinforce mean?

Answer 11

To make stronger

Question 12

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What does it mean to boost economic growth?

Answer 12

To help the economy grow and get bigger

Question 13

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What does it mean to facilitate the growth of something?

Answer 13

To make it grow easier and faster

Question 14

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What are coal deposits?

Answer 14

Large areas of coal

Question 15

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What does expansion mean?

Answer 15

To make bigger

Question 16

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17. What five things did the millions of newly freed African Americans need?

Answer 16

-   education
food
housing
clothing
jobs

Question 17

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18. Tell the three ways Virginia’s economy was in ruins.

Answer 17

Money had no value
Banks were closed
Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed

Question 18

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19. What two measures (steps) were taken to resolve the problems faced by the south?

Answer 18

Freedmen’s Bureau

System of Sharecropping

Question 19

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20. The government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for newly freed African Americans and others in Virginia was called ______.

Answer 19

The Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 20

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21. __________ was a system common in Virginia after the war in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop.

Answer 20

Sharecropping

Question 21

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22. How did things change for African Americans during the Reconstruction?

Answer 21

They began to have more power in the government, and men of all races could vote.

Question 22

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23. How did things change for African Americans after the Reconstruction?

Answer 22

They started to lose power again, and Jim Crow Laws were passed that made things more difficult for them.

Question 23

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24. What laws were passed by southern states that established segregation and reinforced prejudices held by whites?

Answer 23

Jim Crow Laws

Question 24

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25. Jim Crow Laws had an effect on the lives of what two groups of people?

Answer 24

African Americans and American Indians

Question 25

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 26. What was established to keep African American men from voting?

Answer 25

unfair poll taxes and voting tests

Question 26

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 27. Because of Jim Crow laws, African Americans found it very difficult to _______ or hold _______ _________.

Answer 26

vote | public office

Question 27

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 28. African Americans were forced to use separate poor-quality services such as ________, _________, and ___________.

Answer 27

drinking fountains restrooms restaurants

Question 28

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 29. What group of people could not attend the same school as whites?

Answer 28

African Americans

Question 29

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 30. Name four ways that Jim Crows Laws made life difficult for African Americans.

Answer 29

Unfair poll taxes and voting tests It was difficult to vote or hold public office They were forced to use separate, poor quality facilities They attended different schools

Question 30

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 31. When did Virginia begin to grow in many areas?

Answer 30

After the war and Reconstruction as industries developed

Question 31

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 32. What three things did Virginia’s cities begin to grow with?

Answer 31

people businesses factories

Question 32

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 33. What was the key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry?

Answer 32

Railroads

Question 33

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 34. What resource was discovered in Tazewell County?

Answer 33

Coal

Question 34

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 35. What kind of farming and products became important Virginia industries during this time of growth?

Answer 34

tobacco farming | tobacco products

Question 35

Rebuilding the Nation Unit 36. As Virginia began to grow, there was a need for more ________ to travel on.

Answer 35

roads

Question 36

What is Economy

Answer 36

The way areas or bring in money