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Civil War and Postwar Eras

Virginia SOL VS.11

Explain the reconstruction of Virginia following the Civil War.

Study VS.11 with SOL PrepBack to Grade 4 - Virginia Studies

What students need to be able to do

  • Describe what the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution accomplished.
  • Examine the effects of Reconstruction on life in Virginia.
  • Describe the role that the Freedmen's Schools played in the lives of African Americans in Virginia after the Civil War.
  • Discuss the election of African American leader John Mercer Langston to Congress in 1890.
  • Describe the effect of the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • Analyze the effects of segregation and "Jim Crow" laws on life in Virginia.