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Reconstruction
Segregation
Role of People
Changes in VA
Miscellaneous
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What is the definition of Reconstruction?
The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring southern states back into the Union.
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What is the difference between segregation and discrimination?
Segregation was the separation of people based on various factors like race and religion. Discrimination is an unfair treatment based on those differences.
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Who needed help getting education, jobs, and housing after the Civil War?
Freed African Americans or former slaves
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Virginia __________ after the Civil War and Reconstruction in many different ways.
Grew
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List 2 major exports of Virginia.
- Coal - Tobacco - Ships
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After the Civil War, what happened to Virginia's money?
It had no value anymore because it was Confederate money.
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A movie theater has two different entrances: one for white people and one for colored people. Is this an example of segregation or discrimination?
Segregation
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Which organization helped provide education, food, and jobs to former slaves?
Freedman's Bureau
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Why were more and better roads needed in VA?
After the war, people needed to move between the growing cities for further distances
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Define rural and urban. How did Virginia change?
Rural = agricultural Urban = city VA used to be more rural, but became urban with the changing cities and growing economy after Reconstruction
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What happened during the war that led to the Reconstruction period?
The burning of Richmond or land being ruined in battles that then ruined the agricultural economy
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What is integration?
The act of bringing different groups of people together- no separation based on race or religion.
300
True or false: Men of all races could vote during Reconstruction.
True They could not vote after Reconstruction when Jim Crow laws were enacted.
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Where was coal found in Virginia and what did this discovery do for Virginia?
Tazewell County; helped boost VA's economic growth by producing a product to sell and transport
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Give two examples of the effects of Jim Crow laws.
- poll taxes for African Americans - literacy tests for voting - segregated facilities and services - segregated schools - African Americans could not vote or hold public office anymore
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What was sharecropping and who could be a sharecropper?
A policy where landowners gave freed African Americans and poor whites a portion of their land in exchange for a share of the crops they grew on that land each year.
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What were "Jim Crow" laws and what impact did they have on people?
They were laws that segregated people and reinforced prejudices held by whites.
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How were American Indians impacted after the Civil War?
They were considered colored people in many cases, and were also segregated and discriminated against through Jim Crow laws.
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How did railroads help Virginia grow?
- further transportation - turned small towns into cities - expanded business, agriculture, and industry
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How did the invention of tractors and other farming tools impact Virginians?
Less people were needed on farms, so more people moved to cities again.
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When did Reconstruction begin?
1865
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Give one example of segregation, one example of discrimination, and one example of integration.
Answers will vary
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What change helped small towns turn into larger cities?
Railroads
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Explain 3 things that contributed to Virginia's growth after the war.
- more and better roads - increased travel between cities - increased populations of people living in cities - discovery of coal in Tazewell county - people, businesses, and factories all increasing in cities - railroads expanded businesses, agriculture, and industry - tobacco farming
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Why were the rights of African Americans taken away after Reconstruction even though they were still free from slavery?
Many white citizens were concerned about the growing power of African Americans, so they worked to have things return to how they had been before Reconstruction.