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RECONSTRUCTION
Image:
Gallery of Alexander Gardner Photographs, www.learner.or
/biography of
America
Reconstruction
Scavenger Hunt
Directions:
Click
on the hyperlinks to answer the questions below.
Use the back of your paper if you need to.
1.
Use this site to answer the following two (2) questions: http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_033100_freedmensbur.htm
a.
When was the Freedmen’s Bureau created?
b.
List six (6) responsibilities that the Bureau had.
2.
What were funds from Northern aid societies used for?
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/HIUS403/freedmen/fb-socialservices.html
3.
What does “jumping the broom” mean?
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/spring/freedman-marriage-recs.html
4.
How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help Benjamin and Sarah? http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/spring/freedman-marriage-recs.html
5.
Use this site to find the 13th Amendment.
What questions were left unanswered?
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/treasures_of_congress/page_13.html
6.
Use this site to answer the following two (2) questions.
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board/timeline.html
a.
In the case, Dred Scott versus John Sanford, the Supreme Court
said that blacks could not be citizens of the United States.
What Amendment overruled that decision?
b.
What restrictions were imposed on blacks under the Black Codes of 1865?
7.
How many days did President Lincoln live after Lee surrendered?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h124.html
8.
Use this site to answer the following three (3) questions:
http://seacoastnh.com/lincoln/assassination1.html
a.
How did President Lincoln die?
b.
Where did President Lincoln die?
c.
Who killed President Lincoln?
Visit
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/white-only-1.html
to answer the following questions.
9.
Read the second paragraph under “White Only: Jim Crow in America.” What did
Jim Crow laws do?
10.
Look at the pictures on page one and two on “White Only: Jim Crow in
America.” Pick two pictures that show separations between people in America.
Describe them below.
A.
B.
11.
Read the caption under “Jim Crow Songbook.” What were Jim Crow Laws
intended
to do?
12.
Examine the picture of the poll tax receipt. How did poll taxes work? Who did
they impact? Did this cause separation between Americans?
Now
visit http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/promise-of-freedom.html to complete the next few questions.
13.
Scroll down the page to find the picture of Harper’s Weekly next to the
caption “First Vote.” Why was the right to vote so important for all
citizens?
14.
What is the man in the picture on Harper’s Weekly doing? How do you think he
feels?
15.
Find the quotation by Frederick Douglass in the yellow box. What does he mean by
saying this?
16.
Now go to http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/jimcrow/gallery.cgi?collection=crow to match the images with their descriptions.
Image/Year
Description
____1.
1870s
A. a sheet music
cover with
African American
musicians and dancers.
____2.
“The First Vote”
B. a figure made up by
a white man as a black
man sang and
mimicked a
stereotypical
behavior.
____3.
“Jim Crow Jubilee”
C. an African American
being removed from a
railway cart.
____
4. Philadelphia, 1889
D. African Americans
waiting in line to vote.
____
5. “Jim Crow”
E. two pioneers of
Nicodemus, Kansas
17.
What did the 15th Amendment prohibit?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h415.html
18.
How was the 15th Amendment successful?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h415.html
19.
How did former Confederate states oppose the 15th Amendment?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h415.html
Use this site http://www.bchm.org/wrr/recon/p6a.html to answer the following three (3) questions.
20. After the Civil War, “sharecropping” was developed as a replacement for what type of labor?
21. What percentage of the crop did the four slaves receive under the agreement with John Sweeny in 1868?
22. The system of sharecropping eventually tied poor Blacks and Whites to an endless cycle of what?
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
23. When was Nathan Bedford Forrest born
and when did he die?
http://ngeorgia.com/people/forrest.html
24. Give a brief description of Forrest’s Military Career?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest
25. Based on the first paragraph of the web page, what did Forrest become the first “Grand Wizard” of? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest