Vocabulary
The time after the Civil War when Congress passed laws to help rebuild the country and bring the Southern states back into the Union
Reconstruction
After the Civil War, Virginia's economy was in ruins! Complete the sentence to show one example of this:
Money had no ______ and ______ were closed.
Money had no value and banks were closed.
Jim Crow laws were laws that made ______ legal and reinforced prejudices held by white people.
Segregation
Separating of people usually based on race or religion
_______ were expanded during reconstruction. These helped businesses, agriculture, industries, and cities to grow.
Railroads
What two groups of people did Jim Crow laws effect?
African Americans and American Indians
An unfair difference in the treatment of people
Discrimination
What was mined in the Appalachian Plateau that soon became a large industry in Virginia?
Coal
African American and American Indians had to pay a poll _____ in order to vote. If they could not pay they could not vote!
Tax
A system that was common in Virginia during Reconstruction where freed African Americans and poor white farmers could rent farmland and pay their debt with a share of their crops
Sharecropping
After the Civil War, all enslaved African Americans were freed, but hundreds of thousands needed _________.
(multiple answers; you need at least three)
housing, food, clothing, jobs, education
A federal agency(created by Congress in 1865) that helped freed African Americans get jobs, clothing, food, housing, and education
Freedman's Bureau
Why was Virginia's economy in ruins after the Civil War?
Railroads, roads, and plantations were destroyed.
A. Jim Crow laws passed
B. Civil War ended
C. Freedman's Bureau established
Civil War ended -> Freedman's Bureau established -> Jim Crow Laws Passed