Problems after War
How many years did the Civil War last?
4 years (1861-1865)
This major transportation system was key to expansion of business, agriculture, and industry after the Civil War.
Railroads
Unfair differences in the treatment of people.
Discrimination
The name for the North in the Civil War.
The Union
This side won the Civil War.
The Union (The North)
During Reconstruction, Congress passed laws designed to help do these two things.
Rebuild and bring southern states back into the Union.
After the Civil war, this became an important VA industry.
Manufacturing tobacco products
Keeping people apart based on their race, religion, or background.
Segregation
The name for the South in the Civil War.
The Confederacy
This side lost the Civil War.
The Confederacy (The South)
Reconstruction was difficult in Virginia. There was a lot to rebuild because this had occurred a lot in the state.
Battles
A person rents farm land and pays the landowner with a share of the crop.
Sharecropping
These are the two groups of people "Jim Crow" Laws affected.
African Americans and Native Americans
The time period following the Civil War, where Congress passed laws to rebuild the country and bring Southern states back into the Union.
This abolitionist led a raid at Harper's Ferry
John Brown
DAILY DOUBLE
Virginia's economy was in ruins because of these two reasons.
Money had no value and banks closed
This natural resources's industry grew, and was mined in the Appalachian Plateau region during Reconstruction.
Coal
Southern states legally separated the races and reinforced prejudices held by whites when they passed these laws.
"Jim Crow" Laws
Unfair differences in the treatment of people.
Discrimination
DAILY DOUBLE
This major battle was between two ships called the Monitor and the Merrimack (Virginia) and took place in the waters of Hampton Roads, VA.
Battle of the Ironclads
This group of people faced increased injustice, and were in need of housing, food, clothing, jobs, and education.
African Americans
This is when African Americans began to have power in Virginia's government.
During Reconstruction
These TWO obstacles stopped African Americans and Native Americans from voting
poll taxes and voting tests
Keeping people apart based on their race, religion, or background.
Segregation
Seceding from the Union