Richmond, Virginia after the Civil War.Richmond, Virginia after the Civil War.

Learning Goals:Learning Goals:

1.1. Explain how former slaves Explain how former slaves responded to their new freedom, responded to their new freedom, adapted to the new systems of land adapted to the new systems of land ownership, work contracts, and ownership, work contracts, and sharecropping.sharecropping.

2.2. Summarize ways the Ku Klux Klan Summarize ways the Ku Klux Klan resisted Reconstruction.resisted Reconstruction.

Journal Question: Black Codes were Journal Question: Black Codes were created to control the lives of African created to control the lives of African Americans as much as possible. For Americans as much as possible. For example, children could be hired out to example, children could be hired out to work if their parents could not provework if their parents could not proveemployment. Imagine that you liveemployment. Imagine that you liveduring this time period. during this time period. Write a journalWrite a journalabout being hired to work because yourabout being hired to work because yourparents could not prove employment.parents could not prove employment.

Journal Question: Journal Question: What are some things What are some things you would need if you were a newly you would need if you were a newly freed slave?freed slave? Write about how you would Write about how you would feel about being free. You may write thisfeel about being free. You may write thisas a personal journal entry. as a personal journal entry.

1. 1. African African Americans Americans could marry could marry legally and legally and raise their raise their familiesfamilies without the risk without the risk of being sold of being sold for the first for the first time.time.

A family A family celebrates celebrates Kwanza.Kwanza.

An An African African American American wedding.wedding.

2. 2. Freedmen’s schools Freedmen’s schools helped over helped over 150,000 150,000 African Americans gain an African Americans gain an educationeducation..

Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods and necessities available to a certain group in a certain geographic area. Do you think Do you think education was the best way for African education was the best way for African Americans to improve their standard of Americans to improve their standard of living? How do you plan on creating a good living? How do you plan on creating a good standard of living for yourself? standard of living for yourself? Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor and Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.share your thoughts. We will share as a group.

3. 3. Thaddeus Stevens Thaddeus Stevens and Charles and Charles SumnerSumner wanted to give freedmen wanted to give freedmen land, land, but it did not get enough but it did not get enough votes to pass through Congress.votes to pass through Congress.

Thaddeus Thaddeus StevensStevens

4. 4. SharecroppingSharecropping was a system was a system where farmers rented land on where farmers rented land on credit credit and it created a cycle of and it created a cycle of debt.debt.

What resources would you need in order to be a successful farmer? What you do if you lived in the time period after the Civil War and barely had enough to survive? Poor African Americans and whites often lacked the land and money to buy what was needed. Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor and Think about your answer and then turn to a neighbor and share your thoughts. We will share as a group.share your thoughts. We will share as a group.

5. Two drawbacks to sharecropping 5. Two drawbacks to sharecropping were that landowners decided what were that landowners decided what to grow, to grow, and farmers had to buy and farmers had to buy goods on credit from the landowner.goods on credit from the landowner.

6. Two groups 6. Two groups that did not that did not want African want African Americans to Americans to have have equal equal rights rights were were former former Confederate Confederate soldiers and soldiers and some planterssome planters..

African Americans who African Americans who fought for equal rights.fought for equal rights.

You are a banker in a southern bank after the Civil War. You are the son of a plantation owner, who formerly owned slaves. Because of the strains of war, you have limited financial resources to loan. Two sharecroppers come in needing financial assistance. One is a newly freed slave, with an ailing wife and six children. The other is a white man, who deserted his regiment at Antietam. Who would you give the loan to?

7. Two goals of the 7. Two goals of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were to restore the were to restore the Democratic Party’s Democratic Party’s control of the control of the South and South and keep keep former slaves former slaves powerless by not powerless by not giving them civil giving them civil rights.rights.

At the Battle of Liberty Palace in At the Battle of Liberty Palace in September 1874, several hundred September 1874, several hundred members of the White League members of the White League did battle with the Black military did battle with the Black military and police in the city of New and police in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Both sides Orleans, Louisiana. Both sides used cannon against each other. used cannon against each other.

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Write a Write a memory clue memory clue on one of on one of the facts learned in today’s the facts learned in today’s lesson. This can be a mnemonic lesson. This can be a mnemonic device. For example, take the device. For example, take the first letters of what you want to first letters of what you want to remember and make it something remember and make it something memorable. memorable.