Rebuilding Virginia
The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the country and bringing Southern states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
Many Virginians moved from rural areas to cities for these types of opportunities.
What are economic opportunities/jobs?
This amendment ended slavery forever.
What is the 13th Amendment?
After the Civil War, Virginia's economy was in ruins. Name two specific things that were destroyed and needed to be rebuilt?
What are railroads, bridges, plantations, farms or crops?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially ended slavery and stated that no person could be owned as property.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in need.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What is computer technology?
This amendment granted citizenship to ANY person born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Before the war, it was often illegal to teach enslaved people to read or write. These schools were created after the war to provide education for both African American children and adults.
What are Freedmen's Schools?
This amendment granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States and promised them "equal protection under the law."
What is the 14th Amendment?
A system where freedmen and poor white farmers rented land by promising to pay with a portion of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
The policy in Virginia that fought against the integration of public schools.
What is Massive Resistance?
This amendment gave the right to all men to vote.
What is the 15th Amendement?
Because landowners had no money to pay wages and freedmen had no land, this system was created where farmers paid for their land using a portion of their harvest.
What is sharecropping?
This amendment was meant to protect the right to vote so that it could no be denied because of a person's race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This city became a major railroad center, helping Virginia's economy grow after the war.
What is Roanoke?
This term refers to the full equality of all races in the use of public facilities.
What is integration?
This Supreme Court Case established that "separate but equal" was legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Jim Crow laws enforced discrimination not only against African Americans but also against this group in Virginia.
Who are Indigenous People?
Under the 14th Amendment, this term was finally defined to include all persons born or naturalized in the United States, overturning previous laws that denied this status to African Americans.
What is Citizenship?
These laws established the "separate but equal" policy, leading to segregation in public places.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Virginia's economy shifted from being based on this to being based on industry and services.
What is agriculture/farming?
These laws discriminated against African Americans and Indigenous people.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
These were two unfair methods used by Southern states to make it harder for African Americans to use their right to vote.
What are poll taxes and voting tests?
Although the 15th amendment protected the right to vote regardless of race, it notably did NOT yet grant this right to this group of people in Virginia.
Who are Women?