VS.8a Virginia History: Reconstruction
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| What did Congress do during reconstruction (after the Civil War)? | Congress passed laws designed to help rebuild the country and bring southern states back into the Union.
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| After the Civil War, the problems faced by African Americans included? | The need for housing, education, clothing, food, and jobs.
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| Where did many freed African Americans travel after the Civil War? | Many African Americans traveled North
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| What happened to Richmond and other cities in Virginia during the Civil War? | Richmond and other cities were burned by the Confederates so the cities would be of no use to the Union.
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| Virginia's economy was in ruins because-- | Confederate money had no value, banks were closed, and land was destroyed.
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| Who started the Freedmen's Bureau? | The U.S. Congress
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| The government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia | The Freedmen's Bureau
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| This was a system that was common in Virginia after the war in which freedman and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owners with a share of the crops. | Sharecropping
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