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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
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What was the political impact of the Civil War on Virginia?
Political: having to do with governmentAndrew Johnson, President of
the United States during Reconstruction
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When the Civil War was over, Virginia had no functioning government.
•Virginia had belonged to the Confederacy (Confederate States of America), which no longer existed.
President Lincoln reviews Union Artillery troops, Washington,D.C.,
May, 1865.
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•The state government had to be redesigned
to make African
Americans equal
citizens.
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•Virginia had to adopt a new constitution which banned slavery and gave African American men
the right to vote.
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impact: the effect of one thing on another
economy: how a country manages its resources
Sheet music by James Bland, an African American composer
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Economic: producing, developing, managing wealth and resources
Sharecropper child working in a cotton field
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Life for Virginians was difficult during
Reconstruction.
Sharecropper’s cabin
Sharecroppers picking cotton
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The economy of Virginia had
collapsed.
•Plantations could no longer raise cotton, tobacco, and other products, because
owners could not afford to pay former slaves.
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•Plantation owners had invested all their money in the Southern Armies. There was no way to get their money back. Their country was no more.
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•Many Southern men had been killed or injured in the Civil War.
Even if they were well and young,they could not work on
hundreds of acres of land to raise a cash crop without many workers.
Civil War hospital
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•Slaves did not own any
land and could not raise their own crops
or feed their families.
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•Newly freed slaves had little food, clothing, shelter, and no way to make a
living.
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•Confederate money had no value.
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Railroads, bridges, and
crops had been destroyed during
the war.
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Most people in Virginia and the South were poor. Times were hard
for everybody.
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How did Virginians start to rebuild the state after the
Civil War?
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The problems of newly freed slaves were addressed (given attention) by
the Freedman’s Bureau.
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The United States Congress created the Freedman’s Bureau
to help newly freed slaves.
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The Freedman’s Bureau provided The Freedman’s Bureau provided (gave) the newly freed slaves help in (gave) the newly freed slaves help in several ways.several ways.
Beaufort, SC
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Slaves were given food and medical
care.
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A new economic system developed,
called sharecropping.
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Why did sharecropping develop?
Sharecropping developed because plantation owners lacked money to pay workers, and former slaves needed land and work.