Reconstruction

Question 1

The period following the Civil War was known as ________.

Answer 1

Reconstruction

Question 2

What did Congress want to do during Reconstruction?

Answer 2

Congress wanted to rebuild the United States and bring the southern states back into the Union.

Question 3

During Reconstruction, what did hundreds of thousands of freed African Americans need?

Answer 3

housing, education, clothing, food, and jobs

Question 4

What was the problem with money and banks in Virginia after the Civil War?

Answer 4

Money had no value and banks were closed.

Question 5

How were Virginia’s cities and land affected by the Civil War?

Answer 5

Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed. Businesses needed to be rebuilt.

Question 6

What did African Americans in Virginia experience as soon as slavery ended?

Answer 6

increased violence, injustice, and discriminstion

Question 7

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Answer 7

a federal government agency established during Reconstruction to help freed African Americans and others in Virginia

Question 8

What three things did the Freedmen’s Bureau provide for people who needed them?

Answer 8

food, public schools, and medical care

Question 9

How did the system of sharecropping work?

Answer 9

Freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a share of the crops.

Question 10

Sharecropping was common in Virginia after the Civil War. What was wrong with this system?

Answer 10

it had unfair practices that kept people in poverty.

Question 11

During Reconstruction, African Americans pushed for their kids to be educated. What did this lead to?

Answer 11

Freedom’s First Generation (some of whom became doctors, lawyers, and teachers)

Question 12

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

Answer 12

segregation

Question 13

____________ means an unfair difference in the treatment of people.

Answer 13

discrimination

Question 14

Who led the fight to have the first public school system in Virginia?

Answer 14

Black Virginians

Question 15

Who was allowed to vote and hold public office during Reconstruction?

Answer 15

black and white men

Question 16

What laws negatively impacted African Americans and American Indians after Reconstruction?

Answer 16

the “Jim Crow” laws

Question 17

What did the “Jim Crow” laws legally establish in the southern states?

Answer 17

segregation

Question 18

What were two ways that the “Jim Crow” laws kept African Americans and American Indians from voting?

Answer 18

unfair poll taxes and voting tests

Question 19

African Americans and American Indians in southern states were forced to use separate, poor-quality facilities and services. What are some examples?

Answer 19

drinking fountains, restrooms, and restaurants

Question 20

How were African American and American Indian children affected by the “Jim Crow” laws?

Answer 20

They had to attend separate schools than white students.

Question 21

Name something that was impacted by segregation and discrimination.

Answer 21

housing, employment, health care, political representation, and education

Question 22

What form of transportation helped Virginia’s small towns grow into cities after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

Answer 22

trains and railroads

Question 23

How did Virginia’s cities change after the Civil War?

Answer 23

They grew with people, businesses, and factories

Question 24

What mineral was mined in the Appalachian Plateau, helping that area of Virginia to grow?

Answer 24

coal

Question 25

Why were more (and better) roads needed after the Civil War and Reconstruction?

Answer 25

Roads were needed to move people and products from place to place as Virginia’s cities and economy grew.

Question 26

What two industries became important in Virginia after the Civil War?

Answer 26

tobacco farming and the manufacture of tobacco products