Reconstruction unit lesson 2 - freedmen's bureau - power point
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
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Objective
• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT explain the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau
• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT explain what services the Freedmen’s Bureau offered.
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South After the Civil War
• The South was destroyed by the Civil War.
• Cities were burned down.• Plantations were destroyed by
all of the fighting.
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The South After the Civil War
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Ex-Slaves
•The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment gave the slaves their freedom!
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The Slaves are Free!• Yay! The slaves are free!• However....• Did the slaves now have homes?• Did the slaves now have a job?• Did the slaves now have a way to
get medicine if they are sick?
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The Ex-Slaves
• Did the slaves have any of those things?
•NO!
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So what would you do if you were part of the
U.S. Government and in charge of solving this
problem?
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The Freedman’s Bureau
•President of the United States Andrew Johnson decided to help the freed slaves by setting up the Freedmen’s Bureau.
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Freedman’s Bureau•The Freedmen’s Bureau
was a government organization set up to help freed slaves get an education, job, healthcare, and the skills needed to start a new life!
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The Freedman’s Bureau• Break it down!
•Freed - meaning not in slavery anymore
•Men - people
• Together it means people that are not in slavery anymore!
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Freedman’s Bureau
•The Freedmen’s Bureau helped a lot of former slaves.
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Freedman’s Bureau
•The Freedmen’s Bureau was part of Reconstruction.
•Reconstruction was the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War!
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Freedman’s Bureau - Healthcare
• The Freedmen’s Bureau tried to set up new hospitals and clinics to help those people that were sick.
• Many former slaves needed a doctor because they went their whole lives without getting any medicine for bad health problems.
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Jobs•The Freedmen’s Bureau also
helped former slaves get jobs. •Former slaves did not have
jobs because they were now free from their plantations.
•They needed jobs to support their families!
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Freedmen’s Bureau Jobs
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Education• The Freemen’s Bureau also
helped build schools for African Americans and former slaves.
• These schools were very important because a lot of African Americans did not know how to read, or do any math!
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Education
• One of the first schools for African Americans built by the Freedmen’s Bureau.
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Project• You are working for the Freedmen’s
Bureau.
• Design a poster that advertises to freed slaves all of the ways that the Freedmen’s Bureau can help them!
• Remember former slaves cannot read that well so make sure they will understand your poster.