Reconstruction
The period following the Civil War, during which the South was rebuilt, was known as this.
Reconstruction
The South was divided into military districts during this sort of Reconstruction.
Radical
Someone who starts and owns a business is called this.
An entrepreneur
This new invention used dots and dashes to send messages across the country.
The telegraph
If it is 10am here, what time is it in the Central Time Zone (1 zone away)?
9am
Presidential
Although the 13th Amendment prohibited slavery, these laws often took former slaves' freedoms away again.
Newport News became a busy port when this happened.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad connected it to Richmond.
This allowed people and goods to travel quickly from one place to another.
The railroad
If it is 10am here, what time is it in the Pacific Time Zone (3 zones away)?
7am
This organization provided food, shelter, medical care, and other supplies to former slaves.
The Freedman's Bureau
When you treat someone differently because of their race, color, or culture, it is called this.
Discrimination
When coal was discovered here, many people went to work in the mines.
Tazewell County
This city grew a lot when the railroad came to it (and a locomotive factory was built there).
Big Lick (or Roanoke)
John Mercer Langston was this.
The first black man elected to the US Congress
Southerners who survived the war and then used their wealth to hurt other Southerners were called these.
Scalawags.
When black and white people were kept separate from one another, it was called this.
These were three of Virginia's products during the 1800's.
Cloth, furniture, and cigarettes
When electricity was invented, people no longer had to use these lamps, which were powered by whales (sort of).
Oil lamps
Which came first, Richmond growing to 85000 people or VA was re-admitted to the Union?
VA was re-admitted to the Union.
This Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States.
The 13th
In order for Virginia to re-enter the Union, it had to do this.
Pass a new Constitution and/or ratify the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Cities are these sorts of areas.
Urban
As the country and the world became more connected, it was divided into these zones, so that people could know what time of day it was in any part of the world.
Time zones
If it is 12 midnight here, what time is it in Colorado (mountain time)?
10pm