Crash Course Black American History: Reconstruction Era

Does W.E.B. DuBois feel that reconstruction was successful in the longterm?

• Yes

• No

How did life change for white people in the south after the civil war?

• Many of them lost their source of labor, and sometimes even their land.

• They lost their jobs and had to give payments to their former slaves.

What did General Sherman plan to do with the land the white southerners left when he and his soldiers marched through Georgia?

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  Sell it to make money to give to free Black people.

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  Give it to free Black people so they could be farmers.

What terrible event happened 5 days after the war was over?

• Lincoln was killed, and a former slave owner (Andrew Johnson) became President.

• Lincoln was killed and there had to be an election for President.

What did the 13th amendment to the Constitution do?

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  It put in place a plan to gradually end slavery.

• It formally ended slavery.

What does the 14th amendment to the Constitution do?

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  It gives citizenship to any person born in the United States and says that all laws apply to all citizens equally.

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  It gives citizenship to any person whose parents were born in the United States and says that all people have to follow the same laws.

What does the 15th amendment to the Constitution do?

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  It says all men have the right to vote as long as they pax taxes and own land.

• It says states cannot take away a man's right to vote based on their race, their color, or their previous condition of servitude (that they used to be a slave).

What organization was created to help enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and help former slaves create a life for themselves?

• The Freedmens Bureau

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  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

How does tenant farming/sharecropping work?

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  Black people work as farmers for a land owner in exchange for a place to live.  They often didn't get paid.

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  Black people work as farmers for a land owner in exchange for a place to live, food, money, and education for their children.

Was the Freedman's Bureau successful at providing education for former slaves?

• Yes, by 1870 there were more than 1,000 schools in the south.

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  No, the Freedman's Bureau could not find the land or money to set up very many schools.