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Challenges of Freedom: Rebuilding Lives After Emancipation

Explore how freed people responded to freedom post-Civil War, facing economic struggles, land issues, sharecropping, and the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Challenges of Freedom: Rebuilding Lives After Emancipation

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  1. Reconstruction & Daily Life Chapter 18 Section 2

  2. Responding to Freedom • How did formerly enslaved people first respond to freedom? • Left plantations looking for economic opportunity. • Strengthened family ties. • Freedmen’s school – learning to read & write. 1869 – 150,000 attending school.

  3. Working the Land • What prevented formerly enslaved people from making greater economic advances? • 40 acres and a mule – give abandoned land to freedmen. • Despite Radical Republicans pushing for land reform, it did not pass. • Contract system – freedmen accepted contracts for plantation work. Paid little, but could work for who they wanted.

  4. Sharecropping • Farmers rented land on credit. Food & clothing on credit. • Landowner provided tools and seeds. • At harvest, gave a share of their crops to the landowner. • Had to grow what the landowner wanted. • After paying debts and sharing crops, had little or no money left.

  5. Violent Racism • What were the goals of the Ku Klux Klan? • Goals were to restore Democratic control of the South and keep former slaves powerless. • Dressed in white robes and hood. • Beat, tortured, burned and lynched some victims. (African Americans & white Republicans)

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