Vocab
This means to rebuild
Reconstruction
Name one PHYSICAL impact of the civil war
Varies (destroyed property, roads, many deaths)
What was promised to emancipated people but not given to them?
40 acres and a mule
What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?
To provide support for emancipated people after being enslaved?
a written agreement signed by two groups of people
a contract
This is another term for freedom
Emancipation
Name one ECONOMIC of the Civil War
What did Frederick Douglass say was most important to black people?
Voting
How was the Bureau a success?
Varies (provided support for housing, jobs, medical needs, education, etc)
what made the contracts biased?
many black people were illiterate so they were being manipulated
A group of people who worked landowner's property for very little pay
sharecropper
Name two SOCIAL impacts of the Civil War
Varies (trauma, depression, sadness, anger for those who lost, joy for being emancipated, etc)
Name TWO things emancipated people started to do once they were free.
Varies (search for families, look for work, etc)
How was the Bureau a challenge?
Varies (Andrew Johnson took away funding related to schools and other areas that prevented black people from making progress)
how does sharecropping create a cycle of debt for black people
didn't own the land and had to borrow tools to grow crops and if it was a bad harvest, they had to pay off the debt
a tactic/strategy used to take advantage of someone to get what you want
manipulation
Name one POLITICAL impact of the Civil War
Varies (13th amendment/end of slavery, voting rights, more rights related to citizens, etc)
Why was rebuilding a challenge for some southerners?
Varies (still angry about losing the war, lost their source of free labor and profit, etc)
Why did people travel from the North to South to work in schools?
Varies (to support the education of emancipated people, earn money, help fight for the rights of the emancipated)
How was sharecropping similar to slavery?
Working on land for little to no pay, poor treatment, manipulation and control, etc
a program created to provide emancipated people support with housing, education, medical needs, jobs, etc
freedman's bureau
What was the official date of the emancipation of black people?
June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth)
40 acres is the equivalent to what? (hint: football fields)
27
By the 1880s, how much did the amount of black children going to school decrease by?
Half
Name at least TWO other tasks black people had to do in addition to sharecropping.
Varies (cooking, cleaning, ironing, milking cows, etc)