People & Progress
A person who was "rural" lived in this type of area.
Countryside (or farm)
These became the "key" to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry in Virginia.
Railroad
These laws were passed by southern states to legally separate African Americans and white people
Jim Crow laws
This government agency provided food, schools, and medical care to freed African Americans and poor whites.
Freedmen’s Bureau
These were destroyed during the war, making it impossible to move goods or people by train
Railroads
To "repeal" a law or "prejudice" someone means it is gone. These tests were used to stop people from voting if they couldn't read
Literacy tests
This city became a major center for the tobacco industry
Richmond (or Danville)
This word means the unfair difference in the treatment of people
Discrimination
This system allowed farmers to rent land by paying the landowner with a portion of their crops.
Sharecropping
After the war, this type of money was completely worthless
What is Confederate money
This was the name for the period when Virginia began to build up its businesses and factories after the war.
Industrialization
Large deposits of this "black gold" were found in the Appalachian Plateau
Coal
This term describes the practice of separating people based on their race.
Segregation
This is the name given to the millions of enslaved people who were set free after the war
Freedmen
Because the banks were closed and money was gone, Virginia’s _________ had completely collapsed.
Economy
Jim Crow laws created "separate but _____" facilities, though they were rarely fair.
Equal
Because of new jobs, many people began moving from rural farms to these busy areas
Cities (or urban areas)
To prevent African Americans from voting, some states made them pay this special fee.
Poll Tax
Besides food and medicine, the Freedmen's Bureau was most famous for building these to help children learn
Schools
Most of Virginia’s crops and livestock were destroyed, which was a problem because this was the state's main way of making money
agriculture (or farming)
This group of people faced the most discrimination under the Jim Crow laws.
African Americans
This industry grew rapidly because people needed it for heat and to power trains and factories
Coal Industry
During Reconstruction, African Americans began to hold this type of position for the first time in Virginia’s history.
Public office (or government position)
True or False: Sharecropping usually helped farmers become very wealthy and buy their own land.
False
This term describes the period of time after the Civil War when Congress tried to help rebuild the South
Reconstruction