Ch. 11 Vocabulary Words Social Studies: Reconstruction.
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Transcript of Ch. 11 Vocabulary Words Social Studies: Reconstruction.
A system set up where a landowner provided
workers with a piece of land in return for a
share of their crops.
Community leader who helped to improve lives of African Americans by encouraging hard work and saving money (1st woman bank president).
Maggie Lena Walker
1) Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed.
2) Money had no value.
3) Banks were closed.
the system of farming based on slavery was in ruin.
Virginia’s land and plantations lost their value after the Civil War because …
1) Helped build over 200 schools.
2) Helped over fifty thousand African Americans learn to read and write.
3) Provided African Americans with medical care.
The Freedmen’s Bureau:
1) It seemed to meet the needs of poor white farmers and African Americans.
2) Sometimes landowners made unfair deals with sharecroppers.
3) Sharecroppers could easily become trapped into a lifetime of poverty.
Sharecropping facts:
1) Serving in town governments.2) Winning seats in the Virginia General Assembly.3) Becoming judges.
African Americans took advantage of their new rights by:
1) Increased poll taxes.
2) Difficult voting tests.
3) Separate schools for African Americans and whites.
Effects of the Jim Crow Laws:
1) Helped small towns grow into cities.2) Brought new industries to Virginia.3) Made communication and transportation easier.
Effects of Railroads on Virginia’s Recovery:
1) Became a center of African American business.2) Richmond’s mills produced tons of flour.3) Maggie Walker founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond.
Richmond in the late 1800s:
1) Most farmers had small farms.2) Farmers grew a wider variety of crops, such as potatoes and apples.3) Railroads made it easier and cheaper for farmers to ship their crops to market.
Virginia Agriculture in the late 1800’s:
Tazewell County in Southwestern, VA.
What part of Virginia grew when coal deposits were discovered there after the Civil War?
Virginia’s bridges, roads, and railways were unusable. Crops, fields, and livestock were destroyed. Virginia’s cities had been reduced to piles of rubble. Virginia was deeply in debt. Money had no value and banks were closed.
Describe the challenges that Virginians faced after the Civil War.
Land that had once sold for over $150 an acre now sold for $2 an acre. Also, Virginia had lost many of its best and brightest young people during the war.
Describe the challenges that Virginians faced after the Civil War.
It was set up to provide food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South after the Civil War because they did not have the ability to provide these things
themselves.
Why was the Freedman’s Bureau established? Name at least two purposes it served.
Sharecropping was used in Virginia after the Civil War. Freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop.
What system of farming was used in Virginia after the Civil War? How did it work?
How did the railroads change towns?
Railroads brought new and diverse industries to VA and created jobs and opportunities for many people.