Problems
After the Civil War, millions of slaves were freed without resources available to help them meet their most basic needs. The government created an agency to help provide those needs. What was the name of the government agency?
the Freedman's Bureau.
Virginia’s cities grew with people, businesses, and ________________
____________ and _____________ were established to keep African American men from voting.
What are unfair poll taxes and voting literacy tests?
Name the period of time following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union
True or False: After the Civil War, the Confederate States rejoined the Union and Reconstruction began.
True
In the south, Confederate money no longer had ___________
What is value?
Name the form of transportation that was a key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry. It facilitated the growth of small towns into cities
African-American and white children attended separate___________.
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion is called______________
Name the section of the United States where Jim Crow laws were passed.
What is the south?
Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were___________
What is destroyed?
Name the place that coal deposits were first discovered.
What is Tazewell County? (In the Appalachian Plateau Region)
African Americans found it very difficult to vote or hold ____________ ____________.
Name the term for the following definition.
______is an unfair difference in the treatment of people
During Reconstruction, African Americans began to have power in Virginia’s government, and men of all races could ___________
Banks were ____________
What is closed?
The need for more and better ______ increased with the growth of Virginia.
Give two examples of poor-quality facilities and services that African Americans were forced to use.
What are drinking fountains, restrooms, and restaurants.
Name the system used after the war in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a share of the crops
What is sharecropping?
During Reconstruction, what did the Freedman's Bureau provide for freed African Americans and others?
Food, school, and medical care
Name two things that millions of freed African Americans needed after being freed...
What are food, clothing, education, jobs, and housing?
The farming and the manufacture of this product became important to Virginia industries.
Name the government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia
What is Freedman's Bureau?
Name the laws that legally established segregation, or separation of the races, and reinforced prejudices held by whites