Virginia faced significant social, political, and economic challenges following the Civil War. Politically, it had to redesign its government to give African Americans equal rights and ban slavery. Economically, the war had collapsed the plantation system and destroyed much of the state's infrastructure, leaving most people poor. To help rebuild, the Freedmen's Bureau provided food, healthcare and other assistance to newly freed slaves, and a sharecropping system developed to provide former slaves with land and work while plantation owners lacked funds to pay laborers.
4. What was the impact of the Civil War on the politics and government of Virginia? Politics: the methods involved in managing a government Abraham Lincoln, United States President during the Civil War Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America
5. What was the political impact of the Civil War on Virginia? Political: having to do with government Andrew Johnson, President of the United States during Reconstruction
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9. What was the impact of the Civil War on the economy of Virginia? impact: the effect of one thing on another economy: how a country manages its resources Sheet music by James Bland, an African American composer
10. Virginia faced many economic problems after the Civil War. Economic: producing, developing, managing wealth and resources Sharecropper child working in a cotton field
11. Life for Virginians was difficult during Reconstruction. Sharecropper’s cabin Sharecroppers picking cotton
27. Why did sharecropping develop? Sharecropping developed because plantation owners lacked money to pay workers, and former slaves needed land and work.