Problems faced by Virginians
Who needed housing, education, food, clothing, and jobs?
freed African Americans
The separation of people usually based on race or religion is
Segregation
What was the key to expansion in Virginia?
Railroads
What were the laws that were passed by the southern states that took away African American rights?
Jim Crow Laws
What were the problems with VA's economy after the Civil War?
Money had no value
Banks were closed
Many railroads bridges, plantations were destroyed
The unfair difference in the treatment of people is known as
Discrimination
Coal deposits were mined in what region?
Appalachian Plateau
Who did the Jim Crow Laws affect?
African Americans and American Indians
Who used the sharecropping system?
poor white farmers and freedmen
A government agency that provided food, public schools, and medical care for African Americans.
Freedmen's Bureau
A Virginia grew they needed more and better _____
roads
Why did Jim Crow laws make it harder to vote?
Unfair poll taxes and voting tests
Who was an important African American that was elected to serve in Congress?
John Mercer Langston
The period following the Civil War where Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring southern states back to the Union is known as..
Reconstruction
Name one small town that grew into a large city?
Roanoke
What places in the south were segregated because of Jim Crow Laws?
schools, restaurants, drinking fountains, etc.
What city was burnt down during the Civil War?
Richmond
In this system, freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner with a share of their crop.
Sharecropping
What was an extremely important industry in VA after Reconstruction?
Tobacco industry and tobacco farming
What states passed the Jim Crow Laws?
Southern States