Blacks In Reconstruction
Demanded equal rights at organized black conventions and served as delegates to the state constitutional conventions
Freedoms that Slaves unlocked(list at least one)
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Slaves were punished for(broad topic but what is this category)
What is reading and writing?
Problems with wage-labor system
- Wages too low
-White employers had too much control over them
Most important achievement during the Reconstruction Society
What is the right to vote
List two black examples of communities African Americans preferred to promote African American leadership
After the war, African Americans founded...
What is your own church?
The sudden cotton drop caused what? What did white southerners do in accordance with the fall?
What is bank bankruptcy and white southerners took their anger out on African Americans?
Hiram Revels becomes first African American Senator
What is 1870
(True or False)
All anti-segregation laws were followed after they were passed.
During slavery, many slaves had to attend
Price fell from 16.5 c/lb to 8 c/lb after the war
What is cotton?
African Americans played an active role
Black legislators proposed to desegregate public transportation
What are bills?
% of slaves didn't know how to read or write
What is 90%
# of freed slaves settled on # acres of land to farm
What is 40,000 and 400,000?
First African American Senator?
Who is Hiram Revels?
What is emancipation
By 1877, how many African Americans were enrolled in elementary schools
What is 600,000
44 million acres given to freed slaves but it was unsuitable for farming
What is Southern Homestead Act?