Legacies of Leaders
This president believed in preserving the Union and reconciling with the South.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Douglass was born into this condition in Maryland.
What is slavery?
After the Civil War, Southern cities and railroads were left in this condition.
What is in ruins / destroyed?
More than this many miles of railroad track were built in the South after the war.
What is 8,000 miles?
Before the Civil War, the Southern economy depended heavily on this type of labor.
What is enslaved labor?
This Confederate general encouraged Southerners to think of themselves as Americans again.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Douglass escaped to this region to gain freedom.
What is the North?
Confederate money became this after the war.
What is worthless?
Rebuilding in the South was funded mainly by this group.
Who are the federal government and Northern investors?
A person who rents land to farm is called this.
What is a tenant farmer?
After the war, Robert E. Lee became president of this college.
What is Washington College?
One of Douglass’s owners broke the law by teaching him this skill.
What is reading and writing?
Plantation owners lost their workforce because this group was now free.
Who are formerly enslaved people?
Before the war, the South had very few of these compared to the North.
What are factories?
In this system, farmers paid rent using part of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
This abolitionist leader had once been enslaved and pushed for equal rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Douglass believed this right would help African Americans protect their freedom.
What is the right to vote?
Farmers had to borrow money, causing them to fall deeper into this.
What is debt?
These three industries began to grow in the South after Reconstruction began.
What are textile, tobacco, and steel?
Sharecroppers often stayed poor because they had to borrow money for these two things.
What are seeds and tools?
Frederick Douglass supported the passage of these three Reconstruction Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Douglass later worked for the rights of these two additional groups besides African Americans.
Who are women and Native Americans (also Chinese immigrants)?
This major crop failed for several years, making farmers unable to repay loans.
What is cotton?
Northern factories were successful during the war because they produced this.
What are supplies for the Union Army?
After the war, many women took on these because many men had died.
What are new roles and responsibilities?