Reconstruction and Freed African Americans in S.C.

The 13th Amendment stated that...

• all men are created equal

• all slaves are to be granted their freedom

• all woman have the right to vote

A sharecropper is

• a fisherman

• a farmer who owns his own land

• a farmer who pays a landlord with part of his crop

• a landlord who owns farmland

What did general Sherman promise the freed slaves.

• their own houses

• 40 acres and a mule

• a cow and 10 chickens

• a boat and fishing poles

What did freed slaves want the most?

• land

• food

• clothes

• water

What job did most free African American woman have?

• Gardening

• Laundry services for White families

• taking care of other peoples children

• nurses

What happened to most Elite whites in South Carolina?

• They kept their plantations and stayed wealthy.

• They lost their lands, slaves and were left penniless.

Which president gave the Elite their lost plantation lands back?

• Abraham Lincoln

• William Sherman

• George Washington

• Andrew Johnson

Freed slaves were forced to sign contracts and become sharecroppers so they could stay on the land to farm.

• True

• False