1. Do now 9/19/16
What, if any, is the difference between Colin Kaepernick choosing to kneel for the anthem compared to people carrying or having the confederate flag?

2. announcement
Chapter 6 Test: Friday

3. Southern Homestead Act
Define
Reconstruction
13th Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
Southern Homestead Act

4. Blacks in the Reconstruction Era
Chapter 6
Blacks in the Reconstruction Era

5. The majority of slaves remained in rural South for a number of reasons
Freedom at Last
Though the 13th amendment had been ratified, African Americans still did not have U.S. citizenship or the right to vote.
The majority of slaves remained in rural South for a number of reasons

6. Reasons for staying in the south
1. most freed people had little or no money and few belongings
2. few freed people had been educated which limited job opportunities
3. the South’s economy had been crippled by the war
4. southerners had to create a new labor system to replace slavery

7. Federally funded program
Freedmen’s Bureau
Federally funded program
Provided food, clothing, fuel and medical services to many southerners
The most important service they provided was education.

8. Landownership Government tried 2 main methods to own land:
1. they offered freed people abandoned Confederate land
Ex: Sea Island – taken over during the Civil War. Union general William T. Sherman divided the land into 40 acre plots and gave them mules to tend the land

9. This method failed because the land was eventually returned to the original white owners
2. Southern Homestead Act
--ineffective because freed people could not afford the land. If they did find the money to buy the land, few had money left for supplies to make their farms a success.

10. Complete Chapter 6, Section 1 questions: closing tonight
remainder of class
Complete Chapter 6, Section 1 questions: closing tonight
Complete comic strip: due today
Finish Frederick Douglass excerpt and questions: due today