Reconstruction

Mrs. Hammersley's 4th Grade

Reconstruction

How much do you know about Reconstruction, Segregation, and Jim Crow Laws.?

Answers are at the end of each question. Highlight the area just after the word Answer.

1. The period of rebuilding following the Civil War was known as __________.
Answer:Reconstruction

2. Before it could be readmitted to the Union, Virginia had to _____.
Answer:draft a new constitution and approve three new amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

3. Virginia's new state constitution stated that ______.
Answer:they would ban slavery and African American men could vote

4. What did Congress do to help newly freed slaves after the Civil War?
Answer:created the Freedmen's Bureau

5. What led to the collapse of Virginia's economy?
Answer:Bridges, railroads, and roads were destroyed.

6. Why did sharecropping develop in Virginia after the Civil War?
Answer:Plantation owners didn't have the money to pay workers and former slaves needed land and work.

7. The Freedmen's Bureau helped newly freed enslaved people by __________.
Answer:giving them food, clothing, and shelter

8. People moved from the _____ for economic gains.
Answer:countryside to the cities

9. What is segregation?
Answer:separation because of race

10. Virginia's Constitution of 1902 said that all voters had to pay a fee in order to vote. What was this fee called?
Answer:poll tax

11. Many voters, especially African Americans, had to pass a ___________.
Answer:literacy test

12. Under Jim Crow laws, it was legal for an employer to pay African Americans _______ in wages as compared to other employees.
Answer:less

13. Treating people differently or unfairly is called _______.
Answer:discrimination

14. A farming system in which farm workers rest farmland and apy with a share of the crops they grow on the land is called ________.
Answer:sharecropping

15. Who was the nation's first woman bank president?
Answer:Maggie Lena Walker

16. Not being allowed to go to the same school as white children is an example of ___________.
Answer:segregation

17. Who attended Hampton Institute, became an educator, and helped to found Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?
Answer:Booker T. Washington

18. Laws that enforced the segregation of blacks and whites in public places were known as ___________.
Answer:Jim Crow Laws

19. A _____ was a fee that a person must pay in order to be allowed to vote.
Answer:poll tax

20. An individual who dislikes or mistreats people of another race is a _____.
Answer:racist

21. What was the Virginia college created for African Americans by the Freedmen's Bureaa?
Answer:Hampton Institute

22. Who was a slave and later became a respected businessman in Richmond?
Answer:Albert Royal Brooks