Reconstruction in Texas

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What is reconstruction?

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A time of rebuilding and change

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What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?

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Help newly freed African Americans in the South

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After the slaves were freed, what problems did previous slave owners face? Options: They had to find a way to farm their land without enslaving people to do it, They had to move, They had to find new slaves and teach them to farm their land for them

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They had to find a way to farm their land without enslaving people to do it

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How did the Freedmen's Bureau help solve the problem of African American slaves being prevented from going to school?

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They opened more than 1,000 schools and colleges in the South.

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What is a sharecropper?

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A farmer who uses someone else's land and pays the landowner with crops.

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How many flags have flown over Texas?

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6

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What are Jim Crow laws?

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laws that enforced segregation