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100
After the Civil War, many towns, bridges, farms, and railroads were left _______________.
What is destroyed?
100
This government agency provided food, schools and medical care for newly freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
This is the separation of people based on race or religion
What is segregation?
100
These large machines were critical to the growth of cities following reconstruction.
What are railroads?
100

At the start of reconstruction, African Americans gained these two rights.

What is their freedom, the right to vote and hold office, or the right to be treated equally?

200
During reconstruction, confederate money was _______________.
What is worthless?
200
This system of farming was common after the war. Freedment and poor white farmers rented land a payed part of their crops as rent.
What is sharecropping?
200
This is the unfair difference in the treatment of people.
What is discrimination?
200

Coal deposits were found in this Virginia county. (think Virginia Trekkers Video!)

What is Tazewell?

200

Another word or phrase for Piedmont.


DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is land at the foot of the mountain?

300
This group of people had no jobs, clothes, money, homes, or education at the start of reconstruction
What is newly freed slave?
300
Besides newly freed slaves, this group of people also received aide from the Freedmen's Bureau.
What are poor white farmers?
300

These are two laws passed that made it difficult for African Americans to vote and hold office.


DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What are poll taxes and voting tests?

300
The increase of these made more and better roads necessary.
What are cars?
300

These three languages were spoken by Native American Indians.

What are Siouan, Algonquian, Iroquoian?

400
Congress passed new laws to readmit these back into the Union.
What is Southern States
400
Because they could not read or write, the freedmen's bureau provided this for newly freed slaves.
What is an education?
400
African American and white children attended separate _____________.
What are schools?
400
As the population moved and jobs became available, these small towns became big __________.
What are cities?
400

What river is along the city Fredericksburg?

What is the Rappahannock?

500
These were closed in many Southern states following the war.
What are banks?
500

Congress passed laws to help bring southern states back into the Union, and also helped them do this to the areas left in ruins.


DOUBLE JEOPARDY

What is rebuild?

500
Jim Crow laws made this legal. It forced African Americans to use separate public facilities, like restaurants and drinking fountains.
What is segregation?
500
With the introduction of new farming equipment and growth of the railroad. This green crop once again became successful in Virginia.
What is tobacco?
500

This era was known as the time after the Civil War in which Southern States re-entered the Union and the nation was rebuilt

What is reconstruction?