America at the End of the Civil War

America at the End of the Civil War

Tragedy or Hope?

“I remember hearing my Pa say that someone came and hollered “you slaves is free at last. ” He just dropped his hoe and said it in a queer voice “thank God for that. ” (Zinn 145). http: //www. beyondbooks. org/slavery/images/plantationlife. jpg

Match each image to a Civil War Amendment A 1. 13 th Amendment 2. 14 th Amendment 3. 15 th Amendment C B

The South lay in ruins But rebuilding the cities would prove far easier than rebuilding society. And as Lincoln warned “the future would be fraught with great difficulty. ” H http: //lcweb 2. loc. gov/cgibin/query/i? pp/ils: @filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cwpb+04079)) http: //www. pbs. org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/program/in

April 1865: What next?

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Slavery to Sharecropping Lacking money and their own land, many freedmen and women faced were forced to return to former plantations as free laborers under a new system called “sharecropping. ” http: //www. artlex. com/Art. Lex/a/images/africamer_catlett_sharecropper_lg. jpg http: //cache. viewimages. com/xc/3071244. jpg? v=1&c= View. Images&k=2&d =396 B 455078 B 246 ECBC 5 DF 043084823 DBA 55 A 1 E 4 F 32 AD 3138

How did sharecropping work? A landowner would divide up his land could create many 20 -50 acre plots. Landowners gave freedmen A small piece of land Tools A small home In exchange, sharecroppers

How does sharecropping work? Sharecroppers worked the land. Grew cash crops like cotton. And gave HALF the crop to the landowner http: //www. fao. org/docrep/t 0060 e/T 0060 E 04. GI F http: //www. cah. utexas. edu/exhibits/Winedale. Story/green 4/g reen 4 c. html http: //www. burchardgalleries. c om/auctions/1999/jan 2499/l 02 7 a. jpg

Can you tell the difference between sharecropping and slavery? http: //www. english. uiuc. edu/maps/poets/a_f/brown/share cropping. htm “Sharecropping came to define the method of land lease that would eventually become a new form of slavery. ” -Trudier Harris

The Ku Klux Klan begins a Reign of Terror http: //www. pbs. org/wnet/jimcrow/me dia_players/a_kkk. html

Approximately 4 million American men, women and children enslaved in the United States were freed at the end of the Civil War, including a man named Jourdan Anderson. He received a letter from his former master asking him to return to the plantation as hired help. Predict his response.

To My Old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter and was glad to find you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Col. Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living.

What was it like to be African American living in the South in 1900? Jim Crow The average life 44. 5% expectancy was 33 years of age. of adults were illiterate Literacy tests and poll taxes 75% were tenant famers or sharecroppers 90% lived in the South, nearly the same as in 1860 laws legally enforced segregation In North Carolina in 19 1916, only African American youths went to school. http: //www. digitalhistory. uh. edu made voting nearly impossible.

Who or what was Jim Crow? Based on a black faced minstrel character, Jim Crow reflected racist ideals held by many Americans post. Civil War. Jim Crow was not real, but the laws named for this character enforced legalized segregation. http: //ucblibraries. colorado. edu/musicimages/Rag/ Rag. Jim/Rag. Jim 01 a. jpg

Jim Crow Laws Alabama Oklahoma Alabama “All passenger bus “…segregation of the “It shall be colored races stations in this state… white and Virginia shall have separate as to the unlawful for a exercise of waiting rooms… & rights of fishing, separate ticket boating, “…any public restaurant or and Floridawhite hall, windows for the other place bathing. ” for theatre, opera house, & marriages “All colored races. ” Florida “The schools North Carolina for white “Bookspicture the serving of and not motion shall show between a of publicchildren of any place food at which be the schools for white person entertainment…. Shall & colored and a negro… white interchangeable separate the white race negro the are served inchildren and the colored race are hereby between white & room. ” be same and shall set apart and shall forever colored schools. ” conducted designate…certain prohibited. ” seats. ” separately. ”

Georgia “No colored Georgia barber shall serve “It shall be unlawful Mississippi as a barber to for any… white women or baseball team to play “Separate baseball on any vacant girls. ” schools shall be lot or baseball diamond maintained for the within two blocks of a playground devoted to children of the Negro race…” white and colored races. ”

how did life change after the civil war? • Passage of the 13 th, 14 th, & 15 th Amendment • Creation of Freedmen’s Bureau • Development of Jim Crow

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