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VS 3rd 9 Weeks
Virginia Studies 3rd Nine Weeks
| Question | Answer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 was called— | Reconstruction | ||
| After the Civil War, which government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia? | Freedmen's Bureau | ||
| A system in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a share of the crops was called — | sharecropping | ||
| An unfair difference in the treatment of people is called— | discrimination | ||
| What happened to the rights of African Americans after Reconstruction? | Gains in freedom and rights were lost when Jim Crow laws were passed by Southern states. | ||
| What were “Jim Crow” laws? | Laws that established segregation, or separation of the races, and reinforced prejudices held by whites | ||
| The separation of people, usually based on race or religion, is called— | segregation | ||
| After Reconstruction, unfair poll taxes and voting tests were established to keep African American men from voting. This is an example of how African Americans’ lives were affected by— | “Jim Crow” laws | ||
| What happened to the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction? | African Americans were allowed to vote and began to have power in Virginia’s government | ||
| What in Virginia grew with people, businesses and factories? | cities |
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