Reconstruction in Texas

What is reconstruction?

• A time of rebuilding and change
• The act of freeing slaves
• The act of breaking away from the Union

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?

• Help Texans grow crops
• Help newly freed African Americans in the South
• Help find homes for people moving from the North to the South

After the slaves were freed, what problems did previous slave owners face?

• They had to find a way to farm their land without enslaving people to do it
• They had to move
• They had to find new slaves and teach them to farm their land for them

African American slaves were prevented from going to school. How did the Freedmen's Bureau help solve this problem?

• They opened more than 1,000 schools and colleges in the South
• They helped them get into schools
• They drove them to school every morning and picked them up in the afternoon

What is a sharecropper?

• Someone who shares their crops 
• A farmer who uses someone else land and pays the landowner with crops
• Someone who buys crops and sells them

How many flags have flown over Texas? 

• 7
• 6
• 2
• 3

What are Jim Crow laws?

• laws that enforced segregation
• laws that helped African Americans
• laws that said people could still own slaves