Effects of Reconstruction
This period followed the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion
What is segregation?
These laws established segregation or separation of the races and reinforced prejudices help by whites.
What are "Jim Crow" Laws?
The key to expansion of business, agriculture, and industry was what?
Railroads
What were some of the reasons that Virginia's economy was in ruins?
-Money had no value
-Banks were closed
-Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed
-Businesses needed to be rebuilt
An unfair difference in the treatment of people
What is discrimination?
Segregation and discrimination had an impact on many things: Name at least 3
Housing, Employment, Health care, Political representation, Education
The Appalachian Plateau discovered this natural resource that would become a major product in Virginia
What is coal deposits?
This was a federal government agency that provided food, schooling, and medical care for freed African Americans and other in Virginia
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
T/F
During Reconstruction, African Americans began to have power in Virginia's government but they couldn't vote.
False
True or False
The separate facilities and services that African Americans had to use where as nice as those the whites used.
False
Other than coal, this type of farming and products became important Virginia industries
What is tobacco?
This was a system with unfair practices that locked people into poverty.
What is sharecropping?
What is the name of the other group of American's that were affected by segregation and discrimination?
American Indians
Who led the fight for the first public school system in Virginia?
African Americans
Railroads helped facilitate the growth of small towns into what?
Cities
Describe what sharecropping is
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This required African Americans to pay money in order to vote
What is the poll tax?
An important African American leader before, during, and after the Civil War. He Was an abolitionist, President of a black college, and the first African American elected to the U.S. Congress from Virginia
Who is John Mercer Langston?
T/F
The need for more and better roads increased as Virginia grew
True