Reconstruction

The time of rebuilding and change in the South after the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• Juneteenth

• sharecropper

• segregation

A state celebration which started on June 9, 1866, of the day remembering when slaves in Texas learned that they were free.

• Reconstruction

• Juneteenth

• sharecropper

• segregation

A farmer who pays part of what he or she grows to a landowner.

• Reconstruction

• Juneteenth

• sharecropper

• segregation

An unfair separation, based on race.

• Reconstruction

• Juneteenth

• sharecropper

• segregation

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Describe the origin of the state celebration known as Juneteenth.

• It was the two-year anniversary of the day African Americans in Texas learned that they were free.

• It was the three-year anniversary of the day African Americans in Texas learned that they were free.

• It was the one-year anniversary of the day African Americans in Texas learned that they were free.

• It was the five-year anniversary of the day African Americans in Texas learned that they were free.

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Explain why the government created the Freedmen's Bureau.

• To help newly freed African Americans in the South.

• To help newly freed African Americans in the East.

• To help newly freed African Americans in the West.

• To help newly freed African Americans in the North.

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How many schools did the bureau start?

• More than 10 schools and colleges.

• More than 1,000 schools and colleges.

• More than 100 schools and colleges.

• More than 1 schools and colleges.

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Cause and Effect

Identify the effect.

Cause: Some people did not want African Americans to have right.

Effect: ?

• Jim Crow laws kept some African Americans from voting.

• Jim Crow laws kept some African Americans from eating.

• Jim Crow laws kept some African Americans from farming.

• Jim Crow laws kept some African Americans from dancing.

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Fact or Opinion

I am glad to have land to farm, but sharecropping is hard.

• Fact

• Opinion

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Fact or Opinion

Juneteenth is a happy day.

• Fact

• Opinion