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100

What was the era called after the Civil War?

Reconstruction

100

What organization helped freed African Americans with food, shelter, and finding a job?

Freedman's Bureau

100
The amendment that made all people born in the United States citizens of the United States (except Native Americans).
What is the 14th Amendment?
100

What is the separation of people, usually based on race or religion?

Segregation

100

This industry used a crop to make cigarettes and chewing tobacco. It was mainly located in the Piedmont region. 

Tobacco factories

200

What was one major challenge for newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction?

Finding jobs, education, and land to live on, health care

200

Who gained power in Virginia’s government and could finally vote during Reconstruction?

African Americans


200
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote (women, both black and white would have to wait another 62 years!).
What is the 15th Amendment?
200

What laws were created to segregate African Americans after the Civil War?

"Jim Crow" Laws

200

What industry developed in the Appalachian Plateau that became a source of income for residents?

Coal Mining

300

What was one problem Virginians faced during Reconstruction?

Destroyed railroad lines, money had no value, banks were closed, crops were planted, destroyed cities

300
A system of farming that allowed freed men to rent and work a landowner's property in exchange for a portion of their crop. This system usually trapped the tenant farmer in a cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping?
300

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do for education?

It helped build schools for African American children.

300

WHO did Jim Crow act like?

African Americans

300

This industry created fabric for clothes. What was the industry called?

Textile Mills

400

What is the unfair difference in treatment of people?

discrimination 

400
The amendment that made slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
400

Who was a lawyer in Ohio, helped with the Underground Railroad, and became the first African American to be elected to Congress?

John Mercer Langston 

400

What was a barrier for African Americans to vote?

Unfair voting tests and poll taxes

400

These were along the coast, used for naval and shipping.

Port cities

500

What had no value anymore after the Civil War ended?

Money

500

This is the first group of African Americans to receive an education. Many of them became doctors, lawyers, and teachers. 

Freedom’s First Generation

500

Name two things the Freedmen's Bureau did to help the Freedmen's Bureau?

Provide food and healthcare, education, jobs, land, and legal support 

500

Name an effect Jim Crow Laws had on African Americans.

poor housing, hard to find jobs, poorer hospitals, lower quality education, less political representation

500

What transportation route helped grow Virginia by moving people and goods?

Railroads