Transcript Reconstruction_Review_CPS

Reconstruction
Review!
4th grade
1. Why did Virginia’s land and
plantations lose their value after the
Civil War?
A. The farms were in ruins and there
were no slaves
B. Many plantation owners fled to
the North
C. The Union owned the farms
D. People did not need the money
2. What is a poll tax?
A. A tax you pay when buying a
fishing pole.
B. A tax you have to pay to vote
C. A tax on a flag pole
D. A sales tax on purchases
3. What did Virginia have to do
before it could rejoin the Union?
A. Punish former Confederate
soldiers
B. Give women the right to vote
C. Raise money to get the state out
of debt
D. Write a new constitution
4. Which of these is NOT true
about sharecropping?
A. It seemed to meet the needs of poor
white
B. It provided jobs for northern factories
C. It provided jobs for slaves who
needed work
D. It provided the plantation owners
needed workers
5. What were the Jim Crow
laws?
A. A series of poll taxes used to help
Virginia’s economy
B. A series of new voting rules
C. A system of laws designed to
separate African Americans and
whites
D. A system of laws designed to prevent
discrimination against African
Americans
6. How did the government
prevent African Americans from
voting?
A. They created the poll tax
B. They created the Freedmen’s
Bureau
C. They made slavery legal
D. They created the Stamp Act
7. The Jim Crow laws prevented
African Americans from doing all of
the following EXCEPT?
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Attending the same schools as
whites
Using the same water fountains
as whites
Wearing the same clothes as
whites
Eating in the same restaurants as
whites
8. Which of these describes the
role African Americans had after
the Civil War?
A. They worked as slaves on plantations
B. They began to have more power in
the government because they could
vote
C. They established the Freedmen’s
Bureau to help northerners
D. They sold their plantations for money
9. Which of these does NOT
describe the effect of railroads on
Virginia’s recovery?
A.
B.
C.
D.
They helped small towns grow
They created new industries
They brought more jobs
They caused farmers to make
less money
10. What do we call the system in
which freed black men and poor white
farmers rented land from a landowner
and promised to pay the owner back
with a share of the crop ?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau
Sharecropping
Jim Crow Laws
11. Why was life difficult for
former slaves?
A. They had little food, clothing and
shelter
B. They disliked their freedom
C. They didn’t want to work
D. They had a strong education
12. What do we call the separation
of people based on race or
religion?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Equal Right Movement
Reconstruction
Discrimination
Segregation
13. What is the unfair difference
in the treatment of people
called?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Equal Right Movement
Jim Crow laws
Discrimination
Segregation
14. What was the law passed by
southern states that established
segregation and reinforced
prejudice?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sharecropping
Jim Crow laws
Freedmen’s Bureau
Reconstruction
15. How did Virginia’s cities
grow after the Civil War and
reconstruction?
A. More crops were grown
B. The cities grew smaller
C. Cities grew with people, business
and factories
D. Slavery increased
16. What government agency
provided food, schools, and
medical care for free slaves and
others in Virginia?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Freedmen’s Bureau
Reconstruction Committee
Federal Bureau
Jim Crow Committee
17. What do we call 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?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Civil War
Sharecropping
Reconstruction
U.S. Bureau
18. Which of these was NOT a problem
for Virginia’s economy after the Civil
War?
A. Its money had no value
B. Its government had to move to a
safer location
C. Its banks were closed
D. Its transportation routes were
destroyed
19. What was discovered in
Tazewell County in Southwest
Virginia after the Civil War?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Rocks
Apples
Coal
Seafood
20. Why did Virginia need more
and better roads after
Reconstruction?
A.
B.
C.
D.
To help ship goods and products
To help people move west
To help the north rebuild
All of the above
21. What was the key reason for expansion
of business, agriculture, industry and growth
of small towns in Virginia after the Civil War
and Reconstruction?
A. A new system of farming called
sharecropping
B. The building of new banks
C. The writing of a new constitution
D. The development of railroads
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