Reconstruction

The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring Southern states back into the Union

Millions of African-Americans needed housing, education, clothing, food, and jobs

It was in ruins because it's Confederate money had no value. Banks were closed. Railroads, bridges, plantations and crops were destroyed.

A government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African-Americans and others in Virginia and elsewhere

A system common in Virginia after the war in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop

Freedmen's Bureau and sharecropping

Separation of people, usually based on race or religion

Unfair difference in the treatment of people

They began to have power in Virginia's government, and men of all races could vote (women still could not vote)

All the gains the had made were lost with the establishment of "Jim Crow" laws?

They were laws that established segregation and separation of the races and reinforced discrimination and prejudices held by whites

Unfair poll taxes and tests were established to keep African-American men from voting, African-Americans found it very difficult to vote or hold public office, African-Americans were forced to use separate, poor-quality services, such as drinking fountains, restrooms, and restaurants

Native Americans

A tax that had to be paid in order to vote

They began to grown with people, businesses, and factories

Railroads were key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry. They facilitated the growth of small towns into cities

Coal industry

Tazewell County

More and better-quality roads

Tobacco farming and tobacco products