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After the Civil War, many towns, bridges, farms, and railroads were left _______________.
What is destroyed?
This government agency provided food, schools and medical care for newly freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This is the separation of people based on race or religion
What is segregation?
These large machines were critical to the growth of cities following reconstruction.
What are railroads?
At the start of reconstruction, African Americans gained these two rights.
What is their freedom, the right to vote and hold office, or the right to be treated equally?
During reconstruction, confederate money was _______________.
What is worthless?
This system of farming was common after the war. Freedmen and poor white farmers rented land a payed part of their crops as rent.
What is sharecropping?
This is the unfair difference in the treatment of people.
What is discrimination?
Coal deposits were found in this Virginia county.
What is Tazewell?
Another word or phrase for Piedmont.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is land at the foot of the mountain?
This group of people had no jobs, clothes, money, homes, or education at the start of reconstruction
What is African Americans?
Besides newly freed slaves, this group of people also received aide from the Freedmen's Bureau.
What are poor white farmers?
These are two laws passed that made it difficult for African Americans to vote and hold office.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What are poll taxes and voting tests?
The increase of these made more and better roads necessary.
What are cars?
These three languages were spoken by Native American Indians.
What are Siouan, Algonquian, Iroquoian?
Congress passed new laws to readmit this back into the Union.
What is The Confederate states of america?
Because they could not read or write, the freedmen's bureau provided this for newly freed slaves.
What is an education?
African American and white children attended separate _____________.
What are schools?
As the population moved and jobs became available, these small towns became big __________.
What are cities?
What river is along the city Fredericksburg?
What is the Rappahannock?
These were closed in many Southern states following the war.
What are banks?
Congress passed laws to help bring southern states back into the Union, and also helped them do this to the areas left in ruins.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is rebuild?
Jim Crow laws made this legal. It forced African Americans to use separate public facilities, like restaurants and drinking fountains.
What is segregation?
With the introduction of new farming equipment and growth of the railroad. This green crop once again became successful in Virginia.
What is tobacco?
This era was known as the time after the Civil War in which Southern States re-entered the Union and the nation was rebuilt
What is reconstruction?