Effects of Reconstruction
Segregation & Jim Crow
Segregation & Jim Crow Pt. 2
Economic Development
100

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?

100

The separation of people, usually based on race or religion

What is segregation?

100

These laws established segregation or separation of the races and reinforced prejudices help by whites.

What are "Jim Crow" Laws?

100

The key to expansion of business, agriculture, and industry was what?

Railroads

200

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

200

An unfair difference in the treatment of people

What is discrimination?

200

Segregation and discrimination had an impact on many things: Name at least 3

Housing, Employment, Health care, Political representation, Education

200

The Appalachian Plateau discovered this natural resource that would become a major product in Virginia

What is coal deposits?

300

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?

300

T/F

During Reconstruction, African Americans began to have power in Virginia's government but they couldn't vote. 

False

300

True or False

The separate facilities and services that African Americans had to use where as nice as those the whites used. 

False

300

Other than coal, this type of farming and products became important Virginia industries

What is tobacco?

400

This was a system with unfair practices that locked people into poverty.

What is sharecropping?

400

What is the name of the other group of American's that were affected by segregation and discrimination?

American Indians

400

Who led the fight for the first public school system in Virginia?

African Americans

400

Railroads helped facilitate the growth of small towns into what?

Cities

500

Describe what sharecropping is

Answers will vary

500

This required African Americans to pay money in order to vote

What is the poll tax?

500

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?

500

T/F

The need for more and better roads increased as Virginia grew

True