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UNIT 10.2

UNIT 10.2. RECONSTRUCTION. AND DAILY LIFE. MR LANGHORST. Many African Americans left plantations and started to travel They were in search of lost family members, economic opportunities and more freedom. Ex-slaves could now legally marry and family ties strengthened.

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UNIT 10.2

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  1. UNIT 10.2 RECONSTRUCTION AND DAILY LIFE MR LANGHORST

  2. Many African Americans left plantations and started to travel They were in search of lost family members, economic opportunities and more freedom

  3. Ex-slaves could now legally marry and family ties strengthened http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/november/freed-slaves.jpg

  4. Most slaves went to school to learn to read and write Adults and children flocked to Freedman’s Schools http://www.emu.edu/news/images/freedmenlynchburg.jpg

  5. Many northern charities funded these schools http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/91.3/images/edelstein_fig01b.jpg

  6. CONTRACT SYSTEM – a person that did not own land could contract to work the land for someone else who owned it http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/images/a3.jpg

  7. Without their own property, many ex-slaves returned to work on plantations They were paid for their labor http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab9d.gif

  8. Ex-slaves could now chose the best contracts for jobs Very low wages were paid – some were cheated out of wages and benefits

  9. The drawbacks to this system made many turn to sharecropping SHARECROPPING – a worker rented a plot of land to farm

  10. The landowner provided the tools, seed and housing Sharecroppers bought food and clothes on credit at the landowner’s store, owning a lot of money at harvest time

  11. Often a farmer had to use one year’s harvest to pay the previous year’s bill Many sharecroppers were caught in a cycle of debt, they often owned more than they made each year

  12. http://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/pcatapano/lectures_us2/sharecropping.jpghttp://websupport1.citytech.cuny.edu/Faculty/pcatapano/lectures_us2/sharecropping.jpg

  13. African Americans faced poverty and violent racism in the South Officially salves were given their freedom but in many regards things were still difficult in terms of living their lives

  14. KKK – KU KLUX KLAN – a secret group with goals to restore Democratic control and keep former slaves powerless http://www.binghamton.edu/ctah/images/worse.jpg

  15. The KKK attacked African Americans, burned homes and killed people Klansman scared people away from voting, Democrats increasing their power http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.loyno.edu/~seduffy/Misissippi_ku_klux.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.loyno.edu/~seduffy/amcivilwar.html&h=446&w=340&sz=70&hl=en&start=24&sig2=qAjWVKH0mPkHibkbjnllIA&um=1&tbnid=Ww_u6W9DyZ0QOM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=97&ei=AUcvRvStL5GmiQHFmP3nDA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsharecropping%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN

  16. THE END

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