Rebuilding the nation Flashcards
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What is the Reconstruction Period?
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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What does the term, ruins mean?
A place that has been destroyed
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What does no value mean?
Not worth anything
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What does resolve mean?
To fix
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What is a government agency?
A group of people hired by the government to work with the people
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What is segregation?
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion
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What is discrimination?
An unfair difference in the treatment of people
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What are prejudices?
Judging a person on their looks without getting to know them
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What is a poll tax?
Money people had to pay to vote
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What does it mean to hold public office?
To have a job that people vote for (such as governor or president)
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What does reinforce mean?
To make stronger
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What does it mean to boost economic growth?
To help the economy grow and get bigger
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What does it mean to facilitate the growth of something?
To make it grow easier and faster
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What are coal deposits?
Large areas of coal
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What does expansion mean?
To make bigger
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- What five things did the millions of newly freed African Americans need?
- education food housing clothing jobs
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- Tell the three ways Virginia’s economy was in ruins.
Money had no value
Banks were closed
Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed
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- What two measures (steps) were taken to resolve the problems faced by the south?
Freedmen’s Bureau
System of Sharecropping
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- The government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for newly freed African Americans and others in Virginia was called ______.
The Freedmen’s Bureau
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- __________ was 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.
Sharecropping
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- How did things change for African Americans during the Reconstruction?
They began to have more power in the government, and men of all races could vote.
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- How did things change for African Americans after the Reconstruction?
They started to lose power again, and Jim Crow Laws were passed that made things more difficult for them.
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- What laws were passed by southern states that established segregation and reinforced prejudices held by whites?
Jim Crow Laws
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- Jim Crow Laws had an effect on the lives of what two groups of people?
African Americans and American Indians
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- What was established to keep African American men from voting?
unfair poll taxes and voting tests
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- Because of Jim Crow laws, African Americans found it very difficult to _______ or hold _______ _________.
vote
public office
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- African Americans were forced to use separate poor-quality services such as ________, _________, and ___________.
drinking fountains
restrooms
restaurants
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- What group of people could not attend the same school as whites?
African Americans
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- Name four ways that Jim Crows Laws made life difficult for African Americans.
Unfair poll taxes and voting tests
It was difficult to vote or hold public office
They were forced to use separate, poor quality facilities
They attended different schools
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- When did Virginia begin to grow in many areas?
After the war and Reconstruction as industries developed
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- What three things did Virginia’s cities begin to grow with?
people
businesses
factories
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- What was the key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry?
Railroads
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- What resource was discovered in Tazewell County?
Coal
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- What kind of farming and products became important Virginia industries during this time of growth?
tobacco farming
tobacco products
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- As Virginia began to grow, there was a need for more ________ to travel on.
roads
What is Economy
The way areas or bring in money
