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WARM UP
Pick up the slip of paper with quotes from the bin. On you warm-up sheet, write who you think would have said each quote and why. (Do not have to write a specific person, but a specific group. Ex: “Freedmen”)
Lesson Essential QuestionHow was the United States restored despite resistance to Reconstruction?
VocabularyBlack Codes/Jim Crow Laws
KKKSharecropping/Tenant Farming
Disfranchisement orDisenfranchisement
Radical ReconstructionReconstruction Act of 1867
Military Districts13th - 15th Amendments
Carpetbaggers Northern Republicans who moved
South to work in gov’t or make money.
Scalawags A Southern white who joined the
Republican Party in the ex-Confederate South during Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau Fed. Gov’t agency developed to help
former slaves Provided food, schools, legal help,
etc.
Freedmen’s Life During Reconstruction
The Joys Move/Travel Freely Founded Schools Establish Religion Marry Legally Own Land
Slave Narrative: Fountain Hughes
Freedmen’s Life During Reconstruction
The Limitations/Needs Housing Food Clothing Jobs . . . What can they do?
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
Tenant Farming Only slightly better Purchased their own equipment—only
rent the land
“Economic Slavery”
Closer If you could ask Fountain Hughes three
questions, what would they be?