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| 1. What is Reconstruction? |
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| The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union. |
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| 2. What was a major problem in Virginia after the Civil War? |
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| Millions of freed slaves needed housing, clothing, food and jobs. |
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| 3. What happened to Virginia's economy after the Civil War? |
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| It was in ruins because money had no real value, banks were closed, railroads, bridges, plantations and crops were destroyed. |
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| 4. What was the Freedmen's Bureau? |
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| A government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South." |
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| 5. What was sharecropping? |
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| A system common in Virginia after the war, in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop." |
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| 6. What were two measures taken to resolve some of the problems in Virginia after the Civil War? |
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| The establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and Sharecropping. |
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| The separation of people usually based on race or religion. |
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| 8. What is discrimination? |
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| An unfair difference in the treatment of people. |
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| 9. During Reconstruction what happened to African American's? |
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| They began to have power in Virginia's government and men of all races could vote. |
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| 10. What happened to African Americans after Reconstruction? |
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| The gains they had made were lost because of ""Jim Crow"" laws. |
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| 11. What were the ""Jim Crow"" laws? |
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| Laws that established segregation, or separation of races and reinforced prejudices held by whites. |
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| 12. What were some of the things that the ""Jim Crow"" laws did? |
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Unfair poll taxes and voting tests were established to keep African Americans from voting. African Americans found it very difficult to vote or hold public office. African Americans were forced to use separate drinking fountains. African Americans and white children attended separate schools. |
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| A tax that had to be paid in order to vote. |
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| 14. What happened to Virginia's cities after the Reconstruction? |
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| They began to grow with people, businesses and factories. |
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| 15. What was the most important factor in the growth of cities after Reconstruction? |
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| 16. Which Virginia cities really grew because of the railroads? |
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| Roanoke, Richmond, Norfolk, Newport News, Alexandria, Petersburg and Lynchburg. |
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| 17. What three areas did the railroads help expand? |
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| Business, agriculture and industry. |
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| 18. What did railroads bring to cities? |
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| 19. What industry helped Tazewell county grow? |
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| 20. Where were coal deposits found? |
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| Tazewell county and later other nearby counties. |
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| 21. Because of the growth in Virginia, what was needed? |
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| There was a need for more and better roads. |
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| 22. What became important industries in Virginia after Reconstruction? |
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| Tobacco farming and Tobacco products. |
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