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Emancipation in Athens

Authored by Thomas Drewry

History

8th Grade

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Emancipation in Athens
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1.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The arrival of

(a)   meant that the Civil War was over in Athens. Half of the population of Athens was now ​ (b)   .​ Black Athenians celebrated this freedom on the ​ (c)   .

Union soldiers
day of Jubilee
free
William T. Sherman
Confederate soldiers
equal
Emancipation day

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

How did white Athenians and white Georgians repond to the end of the Civil War?

Select 3.

They were terrified.

They tried to protect their wealth.

They send their enslaved people to other places.

They celebrated the freedom of half of Athens' population.

They attacked Union soldiers.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

3.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

When free, what were the first things black Athenians did?

Select 3.

left immediately

looked for relatives who had been sold away

looked for paid work

continued to work for enslavers

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

4.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Newly freedpeople's immediate concerns right after emancipation were​ ​

Select 3 ​ ​

food
family
safety

land

education

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

5.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

In order to make their freedom mean something, black Athenians needed

Select 3.

to own land

to be educated

to participate in government

to earn higher wages

to enslave their former masters

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

6.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In his Field Order #15, William T. Sherman ordered ______ to be redistributed to freedpeople.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What organization did the United States Congress create in order to oversee the redistribution of land?

National Park Service
Department of Agriculture

Reconstruction Bureau

Freedman's Bureau

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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