Rebuilding Virginia!
The period following the Civil War during which Congress passed laws to rebuild the country is known as what?
What is Reconstruction?
The separation of people, usually based on race, is called what?
What is segregation?
These transportation systems were key to the expansion of business in Virginia.
What are railroads?
Hundreds of thousands of these people needed housing and jobs after the Civil War.
What are freed African Americans?
Jim Crow laws made it difficult for African Americans and American Indians to do this.
What is vote or hold public office?
This government agency provided food and medical care for freed African Americans.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Unfair differences in the treatment of people are called what?
What is discrimination?
This resource was mined in the Appalachian Plateau.
What is coal?
During Reconstruction, African Americans began to gain this in Virginia's government.
What is power?
Poll taxes and voting tests were designed to do this.
What is keep African Americans from voting?
This system of farming involved renting land and paying with a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
These laws legally established segregation in the South.
What are "Jim Crow" laws?
The growth of railroads led to the growth of these.
What are cities?
What happened to the gains made by African Americans during reconstruction?
What is they were lost?
What kind of facilities were African Americans forced to use?
What are separate, poor-quality facilities?
During reconstruction, what happened to Virginias economy?
What is it was in ruins?
These taxes and tests were used to prevent African Americans from voting.
What are poll taxes and voting tests?
This agricultural product became an important industry in Virginia.
What is tobacco?
What was the name of the government agency that helped freed slaves?
What is the freedmen's bureau?
What were the impacts of segregation and discrimination?
What are housing, employment, health care, political representation, and education?
What were 3 things that were destroyed during the civil war in Virginia?
What are, Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops?
What are some examples of things that were segregated due to Jim Crow laws?
What are Drinking fountains, restrooms, restaurants, and schools?
What did the growth of railroads facilitate?
What is the growth of small towns to cities?
What happened to money during the reconstruction era in Virginia?
What is money had no value?
What kind of schools where African American children forced to attend?
What are separate schools?