Reconstruction
Problems
Problems
This was the period of time following the Civil War
Reconstruction
The federal government agency that tried to help newly freed African Americans.
The separation of people, usually based on race or
religion.
Segregation
After Reconstruction the gains made for African Americans were taken away when these laws passed in southern states.
Jim Crow Laws
Virginia's cities ______ with people, factories and businesses.
GREW
This group faced injustice, increased violence and discrimination immediately after slavery ended
African Americans
Renting land and promising to pay land owners with a share of the crops
Sharecropping
An unfair difference in the treatment of people.
TWO ways Jim Crow laws made voting harder for African Americans after Reconstruction.
poll taxes and voting tests
______ were a key to expansion of business, agriculture and industry.
Railroads
About this many African Americans were in need during the Reconstruction
A. Hundreds
B. Thousands
C. Tens of thousands
D. Hundreds of thousands
Hundreds of Thousands
This was the main problems with sharecropping
It locked people into poverty by being unfair
During Reconstruction African Americans began to have more rights or less?
more.
Name a type of separate, poor-quality facilities African Americans were forced to use.
Restrooms, Restaurants, Drinking fountains
This was mined in the Appalachian plateau
coal
This was something African Americans needed after being freed from slavery. (5 possible answers)
jobs, housing, clothing, food, education
African Americans pushed for this for their children so they could have a better life.
Education
Black Virginians led to the fight for the first _____ in Virginia.
public school system
This was another group (other than African Americans) treated poorly because of the Jim Crow Laws.
Native Americans
The need for new and better ____ increased
roads
The five problems following Civil War (100 for each you get right)
1. Confederate money had no value
2. Banks were closed
3. Railroads, crops, buildings were destroyed
4. Businesses needed to be rebuilt
5. African Americans faced violence and discrimination
The Freedmen's Bureau provided these three things to freed African Americans and others in Virginia.
food, public schools, medical care
Free black from Louisa, Virginia, lawyer, abolitionist who helped on the Underground Railroad, President of a new black college, and the first African American elected to congress from Virginia.
John Mercer Langston
Segreation and Discrimination had an impact on these parts of life for African Americans and Native Americans (100 points for each you name correctly)
• housing
• employment
• health care
• political representation
• education.
This became an important industry in Virginia (again)
Tobacco and Tobacco products