Reconstruction - The time period after the Civil War, freedmen - freed African Americans, Virginia's Economy - Money had no value, banks were closed, , Businesses in Reconstruction - Many railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed. Businesses had to be rebuilt., Freedmen's Bureau - A federal government agency that provided food, public schools, and medical care for African Americans, Sharecropping - freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from landowners by promising to pay the owner with a share of their crops, Freedom's First Generation - African Americans saw education as a path to freedom for their children. Many in this generation became doctors, lawyers and teachers., Able to Vote and Hold Office - Black and White Men (Not Women), John Mercer Langston - First African American elected to serve in US Congress from Virginia, Jim Crow Laws - African American's rights were taken away, made discrimination stronger , Examples of Jim Crow Laws - polling taxes, voting tests, separate facilities, segregated schools, Segregation and Discrimination affected - housing, employment, health care, political representation, education, Virginia grew because - The cities had more people, businesses and factories, Railroads helped by - growing small towns into cities, increased expansion of business, agriculture and industry, Appalachian Plateau - this area grew due to coal mining, brought jobs, Tobacco Farming - Became important to Virginia industries, Roads - Connected Virginia's towns and cities,

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