Reference no: EM134030404
Assignment:
Read the documents and all 3 essays.
Questions
1. Now that the slaves are free, what was does General Granger suggest the freedmen do for work, food, shelter?
2. How did individual slaves know that they were free?
3. John Reagan suggests that the conquered Texas do what is asked of them in order to be re-admitted into the USA and get their state governments back, why? (he lists 2 reasons)
4. The Express News accuses Governor Throckmorton of not stopping and punishing which crime and committed against whom?
5. According to document 5, The Freedman's Bureau, how are whites treating Blacks?
6. According to the poem in document 6, does the author have any regrets about fighting to keep slavery?
7. According to Martin M. Kenny, how were whites affected by the freeing of slaves and Reconstruction?
8. What is the African American Platform asking for?
9. What 2 sets of records does Crouch use as his primary sources in his essay?
10. How is George T. Ruby's career instructive?
11. (last essay) What features did most freedmen settlements have?