Reconstruction 360

Reconstruction 360

Teaching Ourselves

●Ages 5-81

●White people X allow black
people to get educated
together

●Women teachers

=> Give them an opportunity
to a position that has
leadership

Get The Story

Suji

●Lincoln’s portrait was on a
lot of school wall

●Admired & role model for a
lot of people

●1863 issued the
Emancipation
Proclamation

Lincoln’s Portrait

●Used in most
elementary
schools to
teach spelling

“Once you learn to read,

you will forever be free?”

●Gives
opportunity to
freedom

●Builds
independence

Blue Back Speller

Children

X normal to go everyday

=> Siblings take turns

or

only go during the seasons that
relatively doesn't have much work.

Teachers

●White men not allowed to teach black people

●Gave people education and free thinking

●Women had more opportunities

Community

●Used church as school

●Community would pool money

●Donate land for school

-Organization: helped
support AF education

-Provided books for schools

-Provided military
protection

Freedmen’s Bureau and Missionary Societies

-Organization: provided
money to support groups of
people in need

-Lincoln College: first AF
school in state

-Turned into college

-Frederick Douglass
traveled for 19 months

-Fugitive slave and
abolitionist

-Slavery + Racism in US

-Anti Slavery Speeches

Map of the World

Multiple Select

What did the community do to help the school?

• donate money

• donate land

• let them use the church

• taught the students

Multiple Select

What was the positive aspect of having female teachers?

• Nothing

• Provided an opportunity they otherwise would not have had

• They would have something to do during the day

• Leadership

Multiple Choice

What was Lincoln to the children

• Role model to a lot of people after the emancipation

• nothing

• just a MAN

• The president