Reconstruction of Virginia following the Civil War

1. Reconstruction of Virginia following the Civil War Grade 4 SOL 8a Created by; Kim Smith

2. 25 Virginias faced many problems in rebuilding the state after the war. • True • False

3. 25 What does reconstruction mean? • Following the Revolutionary war, Congress passed laws to rebuild the country and bring the southern slaves back into the Union. • Following the Civil war, Congress passed laws to rebuild the country and bring the southern slaves back into the Union.

4. 25 Millions of slaves were freed after the Civil War. They needed ________________. • To go home. • Housing, clothing, jobs, and food • To find family members so they could build towns.

5. 25 Virginias economy was in ruins. What were the effects of this? • Plantations were rebuilt. • Crops were replanted and harvested. • Money had no value, banks were closed, railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed.

6. 25 What was the Freeman's Bureau? • A government agency that provided tickets to the freed slaves to go home. • A government agency that provided land for the freed slaves to start farming. • A government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in VA and the rest of the south.

7. 25 When freemen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop this was know as_____. • Sharecropping • Share farming • Land rent