Problems/solutions
Freedmen and poor farmers rented land from plantation owners and paid the for the land using crops they grew.
Sharecropping.
Separate schools, water fountains, and restaurants are all examples of what?
Segregation
What group of Virginians did Jim Crow Laws effect the most?
African Americans.
Coal became a major part of the economy during Reconstruction. In what region is coal found?
Appalachian Plateau
What is the saying used to remember the regions?
A Very Big Pig Cuddles
This agency was developed to help newly freed African Americans fine jobs, clothing, food, and housing.
Freedman Bureau
Voting test, poll taxes, separate schools, and separate seating on the bus are all examples of the implementation of what?
Jim Crow Laws
First African American to service in Congress?
John Mercer Langston
What helped small towns grow into big cities?
Railroads
The body of water between Virginia and the Eastern Shore?
Chesapeake Bay
What is the unfair difference in the treatment of other people?
Discrimination
What affect did Plessy vs. Ferguson have on schools?
Created separate schools based on race.
I want to read a firsthand account of what the government was like during the Civil War. What source should I use?
A. a book written about the presidents during that time.
B. An interview given by a member of Congress.
C. An encyclopedia entry about Jim Crow Laws.
B. An interview given by a member of Congress.
Put the following events in order:
A. Reconstruction begin
B. Railroads expanded
C. Workers moved to cities for jobs
D. Businesses and factories increased
A, D, B, C
What is the natural barrier between Piedmont and Coastal Plains that is made up of natural waterfalls and rapids?
Fall Line
Freedmen's Bureau was created by who?
Congress
I am doing a report on how segregation affected different groups of people. What source should I use?
A. interview with an African American during reconstruction.
B. an Art exhibit about Reconstruction.
C. A historians research that includes information from different perspectives.
C. A historians research that includes information from different perspectives.
Name TWO economic activities that were important to Virginia's growth.
Railroad and Tobacco
What are three different ways to describe Virginia after Reconstruction. Example: Coal mining became a new industry.
Draw the brain dump for major rivers AND cities in Virginia.
See brain dump
Name 3 hardships that Virginian's faced during Reconstruction?
Any three
-Businesses needed rebuild
-railroads, plantations, bridges, and crops were destroyed
-money had no value
African Americans needed food, clothing, housing, education, and jobs.
Name three ways that Jim Crow Laws affect African Americans?
-made voting more difficulty through poll taxes and voting test
-separate facilities
prompted discrimination towards African Americans (housing, jobs, education).
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and how do we remember them?
13th: abolishes slavery
14th: granted citizenship to any person born in US
15th: forbade any state from denying the vote to anyone on the basis of race, color, or previous servitude (enslavement)
FREE CITIZENS VOTE
Virginians had to go through the Appalachain Mountains and _____________to move into western lands.
Cumberland Gap
Put these events in order
A. Burgesses were elected by the settlers to represent them.
B. The charters of the Virginia Company of London were granted.
C. Jamestown was founded.
D. The House of Burgesses became known as the General Assembly.
B, C, A, D