| A | B |
|---|
| Economy of 18th and 19th century Virginia | rural and agricultural |
| Economcy of 20th century Virginia | More urban, industrialized society |
| Railroads | Key to Virginia's growth after Reconstruction |
| Tazewell County | Coal was discovered in this county (in southwestern Virginia) |
| Unfair poll taxes and voting tests | Prevented African Americans from voting |
| Discrimination | An unfair difference in the treatment of people |
| Segregation | The separation of people, usually based on race or religion. |
| "Jim Crow" Laws | Established segregation or separation of the races |
| Reconstruction | The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | A government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South. |
| Sharecropping | Renting land - promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop |
