Reconstruction in Texas

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?

• Help newly freed African Americans in the South

• Provide land to Southern plantation owners

• Establish schools for white children only

• Enforce laws against African American rights

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

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

• They provided financial support to private schools in the North.

• They established a scholarship program for African American students.

• They created a national curriculum for all schools in the South.

What is reconstruction?

• A time of rebuilding and change

• A period of economic decline

• A phase of political stability

• An era of technological advancement

After the slaves were freed, what problems did previous slave owners face?

• 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

• They had to sell their land to pay off debts

How many flags have flown over Texas?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

What are Jim Crow laws?

• laws that enforced segregation

• laws that promoted racial equality

• laws that abolished slavery

• laws that regulated voting rights

What is a sharecropper?

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

• A landowner who rents out land to farmers.

• A farmer who grows crops on their own land without any help.

• A worker who is paid a fixed salary to manage a farm.