Reconstruction
Reconstruction: a period or time where a certain area is being rebuild from some sort of destruction .
Impeach: Where the president or a person of power is removed from office.
13th Amendment: The abolition of slavery in states
14th Amendment: Civil rights laws allowed all free men to vote of all ethnics.
15th Amendment: Gave all African Americans the right to vote excluding women
Jim Crow laws:Laws which separated blacks from whites or segregation where people where separated from parks etc
Impeach: Where the president or a person of power is removed from office.
13th Amendment: The abolition of slavery in states
14th Amendment: Civil rights laws allowed all free men to vote of all ethnics.
15th Amendment: Gave all African Americans the right to vote excluding women
Jim Crow laws:Laws which separated blacks from whites or segregation where people where separated from parks etc
Free Citizens Vote
13th = "Free" 14th = "Citizens" 15th = "Vote"
A Mile in their Shoes
Ex-Confederate SoldierFacts:
1.Many were ruined because slaves were freed 2.Many returned home to find homes in ruin from the war 3.Many were morally destroyed on the inside Quote:We have lost our freedom,our way of life my home in ruins my first born of the age 17 dead and un recovered. FreedmanFacts:
1.Recently freed as an ex slave 2.Is most likely jobless or share croping 3.Are still hated in the south by most confederates Quote:We have been liberated physically but are still not tolerated by many southereners so are we truly free until they learn to accept us instead of tolerate for the war has not ended pcsycologicly for we are all brothers no matter our color . |
CarpetbaggerFacts:
1.You are a buissnes man looking for benifit from southerners 2.You are a importent part of economic reconstruction in the south 3.Freed men know that they will not be able to surrvive without you Quote:I am but a simple man a self made man for I am the future of the economy in the south I am a pinnacle of hope for freedmen for i will not judge them for there color and i will readily accept there loans requests. WomenFacts:
1.You work without end during the civil war doing everything in place of the men working cleaning and caring for the young ones 2. With the end of the civil war you know your money will be void and you know just because its over dosent mean the work will end 3.Slaves will be free and they will ask for work with there rights you still get none Quote:They are free but am I? No my work will just become harder and with the war over all them get them rights but do I?I am expected to work and act lady like when the work im doin doesent feel very rewardin.Wheres my freedom? |