2. What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

3. The Freedmen's Bureau was created to help whom?

4. What happened to VA's economy because of the Civil War?

5. What does discrimination mean?

6. What kept African Americans from voting?

7. What was key to expanding business in VA after the Civil War?

8. Give an example of a town that was a railroad center.

9. The development of what helped VA to grow?

10. What does segregation mean?

11. What product became an important industry in VA?

12. What did "Jim Crow" laws force African Americans to do?

13. What happened to banks in VA after the Civil War?

14. Why was sharecropping developed?

1. Southwest VA

2. To rebuild the country

3. Former slaves

4. Railroads, bridges, and crops were destroyed

5. An unfair difference in the treatment of people

6. Voting tests and poll taxes

7. Railroads

8. Roanoke

9. Industry

10. Separating people based on race or religion

11. Coal

12. Use separate public facilities (like bathrooms, theaters, water fountains, hospitals)

13. They were closed.

14. Because former slaves did not have money to pay for land, and
landowners did not have money to pay wages.