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Title: Freedmen


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Freedmens Life During Reconstruction
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Freedom!
  • The Joys
  • Move/Travel Freely
  • Founded Schools
  • Establish Religion
  • Marry Legally
  • Own Land

3
Freedom!
  • The Limitations/Needs
  • Housing
  • Food
  • Clothing
  • Jobs . . . What can they do?

4
Sharecropping
  • A landowner allows person to use the land in
    return for a share of the crop produced on the
    land (50 split), but . . .
  • Anything borrowed and/or rent also had to be paid
    with the remainder of the crop

Who gets the money?
5
Tenant Farming
  • Only slightly betterthese farmers have purchased
    their own equipment and only rent the land.
  • EconomicLimitation forFreedmen

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Freedmens Bureau (1865)
  • Agency (of the Federal Govt) developed to help
    former slaves
  • Provided food, schools, legal help, etc.

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Students standing outside a freedmens school
known as James Plantation School (North Carolina)
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Freedmens Bureau (1865)
  • Agency (of the Federal Govt) developed to help
    former slaves
  • Provided food, schools, legal help, etc.
  • Unpopularwith manyWhite Southerners

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Imagine you are a White Southerner . . .
  • Wouldnt you be angry that the Freedmen are
    getting all this help?
  • What might you do?
  • You might become defiant!
  • You might feel that you have lost power!

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As a Result, the Freedmens Bureau . . .
  • Could not overcome Southern hostility,
  • Lacked political support of North and South, and
  • Ended in 1872

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Limits to Freedmens Rights
  • Disenfranchisement (means to prevent from voting)
  • Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws
  • Hate Groups
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