Life Under Reconstruction
The efforts of Black Americans to build communities, schools, and political power.
Key Questions
- 1How did the Freedmen's Bureau assist formerly enslaved people in their transition to freedom?
- 2What were the successes and failures of Black political participation in the South?
- 3How did sharecropping create a new cycle of economic dependency?
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