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File 1The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on December 6th, 1865.Amendment 13:????????? Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or and place subject to their jurisdiction...The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 28th, 1868.Amendment 14:????????? All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws....The 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on March 30th, 1870.Amendment 15:????????? The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude...SOURCE:? U. S. Constitution.-200025451485File 2 Picture A Source: First Black Legislature in South Carolina 1878Picture BNorthern artist’s portrayal of the South Carolina State Legislature during Reconstruction.Source: The Cover of Harper’s Weekly, March 14, 1874File 3File 4center000File 5Source: Protest of the Freedmen of Edisto Island, South Carolina to General Howard, October 1865Note: This document is in the original spelling in which it was written.Homesteads - lands to settle and live onGeneral we want Homesteads; we were promised homesteads by the government; If It does not carry out the promises Its agents made to us, If the government Haveing concluded to befriend Its late enemies and to neglect to observe the principles of common faith between Its self and us Its allies In the war you said was over, now takes away from them all right to the soil they stand upon save such as they can get by again working for your late and thier all time enemies - If the government does so we are left In a more unpleasant condition than our former.we are at the mercy of those who are combined to prevent us from getting land enough to lay our Fathers bones upon. We Have property In Horses, cattle, carriages, & articles of furniture, but we are landless and Homeless, from the Homes we Have lived In In the past we can only do one of three things Step Into the public road or the sea or remain on them working as In former time and subject to their will as then. We can not resist It In any way without being driven out Homeless upon the road.You will see this Is not the condition of really freemen.In behalf of the peopleCommittee: Henry Bram, Ishmael Moultrie, Yates SampsonFile 6W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America "But the decisive influence was the systematic and overwhelming economic pressure. Negroes who wanted work must not dabble in politics. Negroes who wanted to increase their income must not agitate the Negro problem. . . in order to earn a living, the American Negro was compelled to give up his political power." -- Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, right23622000Source: Harper’s Weekly, October 21, 1876.Caption: “Of Course he wants to vote the Democratic ticketFile 7The Freedman’s BureauThe Freedman’s Bureau was created on March 3rd 1865The bureau was a kind of primitive welfare agencyIt was to provide food, clothing, medical care, employment help and education to freedmanThe bureau achieved its greatest successes in educationName:Reconstruction History MysteryFile 1What was the purpose of the 13th amendment? _________________________________________What was the purpose of the 14th amendment? __________________________________________________________________________________What was the purpose of the 15th amendment? __________________________________________________________________________________How will these amendments effect the lives of slaves? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Explain the difference between the 15th and 19th Amendment. Who was granted the vote under each Amendment? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________File 21. Who are the men that appear in photograph A? ________________________________________________________________________________________2. What state are these men from? ____________________________________________3. How were they able to get elected to the state legislature? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Make 5 observations about picture B? A________________________________________ B________________________________________C________________________________________D________________________________________ E________________________________________What image is the cartoon trying to portray? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________File 3What is this editorial advocating? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Make 5 observations about the picture: A_____________________________________________B_____________________________________________C_____________________________________________D_____________________________________________E_____________________________________________What does this picture tell us about life for some freed slaves? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________File 4What does this recollection by John McCoy suggest as a reason for the failure of efforts to guarantee freedmen full citizenship rights? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What is a sharecropper? ______________________________________________________________________________ Why would someone choose to be a sharecropper? __________________________________________How did a sharecropper get supplies? _________________________________________ Why was it so difficult for a sharecropper to make money? __________________________________________________________________________________File 51. What kind of people wrote this letter? __________________________________________________________________________________________________2. What do the authors of this passage believe they are entitled to? Why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________What do the authors fear will happen if their complaint is ignored? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________File 6 What According to DuBois, why did freedman stop voting? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Make 5 observations about the picture: A_______________________________________________B_______________________________________________C_______________________________________________D_______________________________________________E_______________________________________________What does this picture tell us about the life of Freedman during Reconstruction? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ File 7Where were most of the Black colleges established after the Civil War? __________________________________________Who do you think established these institutions? ____________________Why do you think the Freedman’s bureau was necessary? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Make 5 observations the Freedman’s Bureau Political Cartoon? A________________________________________ B________________________________________C________________________________________D________________________________________ E________________________________________ What image of the Freedman’s Bureau is the artist trying to portray? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why do you think that the President would be against the bureau, but congress would vote for it? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ................
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