Reconstruction Continued

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Reconstruction Continued

• K2 productions

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After Slavery

• Voters
• New freedoms
• Education
• Politics
• Hiram Revels
• Sharecropping
• Tenant Farming
• Cotton

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Voting

• Many A.A. were Republicans
• 90 of qualified A.A. voted in the south
• Flocked to the polls

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New Freedoms

• News Freedoms Previously Couldnt
• Marry Legally
• Travel without permission
• Attend School
• Live and work as they pleased
• Many freed slaves traveled 1865-1870
• The 10 largest southern cities doubled
• Reunification of families
• Freedmen's Bureau helped to reunite families

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Education

• 80 of freed slaves over 20 were illiterate in
  1870
• Freed slaves wanted to be educated
• Initially blacks were taught by whites mostly
  women
• 1869 blacks outnumbered white teachers
• 1877 600,000 African Americans were in elementary
  schools
• Many whites tried to keep them out with violence
• Black churches were created

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Politics

• Most early black politicians were born free and
  educated in the north
• 1867 more freed slaves were holding office
• African Americans still and were the minority of
  office holders
• Only 16 black members of congress
• Hiram Revels First A.A. in the senate
• Only 5 A.A. in the senate since reconstruction

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Farming
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Sharecropping
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