Rebuilding the South
True or False. The period of time after the Civil War
True
True or false African Americans wanted to be educated because they liked to read
False
True or false, segregation means treating someone differently based on their race or religion
True or false African Americans began to have more freedoms and rights after the Civil War
True
True or false Pocahontas served as a contact between the native peoples and the English
True
What was the main goal of reconstruction
The United States passed laws to rebuild the nation and bring southern states back to the Union was called reconstruction
What is sharecropping?
a farming system where freedmen worked the landowners land in payed them with a share of their crops
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Enforced segregation and discrimination
What region in Virginia produced the most coal?
Appalachian Plateau
What was the effect of Governor calling a meeting to the general assembly
A. the house first meets in Tichmond
B. The continental congress meets in Philidelphia
C. Additional English women arrived in Jamestown
What was the Freedmen's Bureau and what did the provide?
A government agency that provided food, medical care, and education to struggling formerly enslaved African Americans
What kind of jobs did the African Americans have?
Farmers, sharecroppers
What ways did the goverment try to prevent African Americans from voting?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Why was coal so important?
Cooking, kept people warm, is what made the trains run on the railroads
What two regions did English and Other Europeans settle in
Coastal Plain and Piedmont region
What are two things we learned about John Mercer Langston
Helped the underground railroad in Ohio
Became president of new black college in Petersburg
Leader, before during and after Civil War
Became a lawyer in the North
Was a free man from Lousia County Virginia
Why was land ownership important for African Americans
It provided economic independance and stability
Around what time were Jim Crows laws established?
Late 1800's
What are some of the things that developed in citites due to railroads?
What government agency most likely wrote this sentence?
Come over to the new world and Buy your stock today!
Virginia Company of London
How was the South's economy affected after the Civil War
Their money had no value, banks were closed, most were in poverty
How did sharecropping negatively effect african americans
It kept them locked into poverty because they were never able to afford their basic needs
What are some things that segregation and discrimination had an impact on?
Education, employment, political representation
Why were railroads important during reconstruction?
make cities grow larger, introduced more businesses and factories because transportation was made faster and easier
What was an effect of of settlers needing an inexpensive source of labor to farm tobacco
They brought over African men, women, and children to work on their plantations