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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”) . Warm Up. Lesson Essential Question.

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Warm Up

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  1. 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”) Warm Up

  2. Lesson Essential Question • How was the United States restored despite resistance to Reconstruction?

  3. Vocabulary Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws KKK Sharecropping/Tenant Farming Disfranchisement orDisenfranchisement Radical Reconstruction Reconstruction Act of 1867 Military Districts 13th - 15th Amendments

  4. Carpetbaggers • Northern Republicans who moved South to work in gov’t or make money.

  5. Scalawags • A Southern white who joined the Republican Party in the ex-Confederate South during Reconstruction

  6. Freedmen’s Bureau • Fed. Gov’t agency developed to help former slaves • Provided food, schools, legal help, etc.

  7. Unpopular w/ Southern whites!!!

  8. Freedmen’s Life During Reconstruction The Joys • Move/Travel Freely • Founded Schools • Establish Religion • Marry Legally • Own Land

  9. Slave Narrative: Fountain Hughes

  10. Freedmen’s Life During Reconstruction The Limitations/Needs • Housing • Food • Clothing • Jobs . . . What can they do?

  11. 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

  12. Tenant Farming • Only slightly better • Purchased their own equipment—only rent the land “Economic Slavery”

  13. Closer • If you could ask Fountain Hughes three questions, what would they be?

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