VS.8 Reconstruction Test - Questions
1. What happened to
Virginia’s cities during
Reconstruction?
2. What is discrimination?
3. Why was Virginia's
economy in ruins (trouble)
after the Civil War?
4. What was discovered in
Tazewell that quickly became
the main industry of the area?
5. What is sharecropping?
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6. What is reconstruction?
7. What laws were
established in southern
states to legally separate the
races?
8. How did railroads help
after the Civil War?
9. What was the Freedmen's
Bureau created to do?
10. What is segregation?
VS.8 Reconstruction - Answers
1. During Reconstruction, the cities
grew with people, businesses, and
factories.
2. Discrimination is an unfair
treatment of one person or group of
people.
3.
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Money had no value.
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Banks were closed.
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Railroads, bridge, plantations, and
crops were destroyed.
4. coal
5. A person rents farm land and pays
the landowner with a share of the
crop.
6. The years after the Civil War in
which the U.S. Congress passed laws to
rebuild the country.
7. “Jim Crow” Laws
8. Railroads helped expand business,
agriculture, and industry
9. The Freedmen’s Bureau provided
schools, food, clothing, and medical
care for freed African American
slaves and others in Virginia.
10. Segregation is a separation of the
races (schools, restaurants).