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  • Reconstruction of Virginia
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Reconstruction
  • Rebuilding of homes and other buildings
  • Congress passed laws to rebuild the country
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Problems during reconstruction
  • Money had no value
  • Banks were closed
  • Railroads, bridges  and crops, were destroyed
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Measures to Resolve problems
  • The freedmen’s bureau gave slaves food, schooling, and medicine
  • Sharecropping gave slaves little money but they were freed also


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Segregation
  • The blacks had different schools and drinking fountains
  • Separation of people white and black
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Discrimination
  • An unfair difference in the treatment of
  •  blacks and whites
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Jim Crow Laws
  • Only had an effect on blacks
  • It also had an effect on their life
  • Unfair poll taxes and voting tests were hard on blacks
  • It kept blacks from voting and holding office
  • Blacks attended separate schools


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Growth of Virginia
  • Grew with people
  • Also grew with businesses
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Railroads
  • It was a way of traveling
  • It was a key to expansion of business, agriculture, and industry
  • It made business grow and factories grow
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Coal deposits
  • It was discovered in Tazewell County in the Appalachian Plateau
  • It was the source of livelihood for residents
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Tobacco
  • Tobacco was a very important industry


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Questions
  • What were railroads used for?
  • What is discrimination?
  • What is segregation?
  • What were Jim Crow laws?
  • Who experienced unfair polling taxes and voting tests?
  • Name 3 problems that happened during Reconstruction.