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Links for Freedmen's Bureau homework~

View the videos to enable you to complete your homework assignment on the Freedmen's Bureau. The
questions are listed below:

A. What was the purpose/function of the Freedmen's Bureau?
B. Which one of our "BIG SEVEN" questions was it supposed to help
answer?
C. What services did the Freedmen's Bureau provide?
D. What were some of the problems faced by the Freedmen's Bureau?
E. Why are the records of the Freedmen's Bureau so significant today?










This is a student project video. The
information is accurate.
























This is a brief video describing the
importance of records kept by the Freedmen's
Bureau.













Your goal:
To become an "expert" on ONE topic related to the experience of newly emancipated slaves. You must choose ONE activity to complete from each section (A and B). You must complete one before starting the next!


Step ONE: choose a topic from the list of green topics to the right
Step TWO: Select an activity from the A level.
Step Three: Use links and other sources to complete A level.
Step Four: Turn in your quality A level work.


A level:

  • Create a "top down" web related to your topic. You must include three main ideas and 3-4 details under each main idea.
  • Make an acrostic using your topic. Attach at least 15 terms/events/people/ideas to it.
  • Make and fill in a crossword puzzle using at least 15 terms related to your topic. Use this website to make the puzzle: Puzzlemaker
-If you want to do this you must write the clues and answers BEFORE making the puzzle.

  • Use the "ABC" graphic organizer. Fill in at least 20 terms/events/people/ideas related to your topic.
  • Create a vocabulary page; include ten words and definitions related to your topic.

B level:

  • Show and tell: Find at least four pictures to illustrate your topic. Include a caption that provides the place and date of the photo. Make TWO subjective observations and TWO objective observations for each photo.
  • Make a time line showing major events related to your topic.
  • Make a poster designed to inform freedmen about your topic.
  • Find and analyze two editorial cartoons related to your topic.
  • Create a textbook page with text and visuals designed to teach an elementary student about your topic.
  • Make a Venn Diagram comparing two people/events/ideas related to your topic.
  • Write two journal pages from the perspective of someone experiencing events related to your topic



Topics and links to get you started:


Freedmen's Bureau
Very detailed page
Basic overview
Some primary sources
Law creating the Freedman's Bureau
PBS website
Another link
National archives
Marriage records
Education of freed slaves
Freedmen's schools
Primary sources
Outstanding website
Some primary sources
PBS website
Another link!
Try this!
Role in government/politics
Blacks in government
Wikipedia?!!?

Voting
PBS website
Wikipedia???!!?
Sharecropping
Sharecropping in Georgia
Sharecropping
Overview of sharecropping
The basics
PBS website
Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Go here; type in Ku Klux Klan in their search bar to find good info.
Detailed background

Primary sources

Background
Background/links/photos
The Klan
The Black Codes
Some basics
Summary/examples from SC
Great~Background and links
Background and examples
Basics
PBS website
A History of US website

A variety of topics:
Variety
A collection of articles/visuals from the time period:
Harper's Weekly
A Chronology of Emancipation:
Timeline
A collection of historical editorial cartoons
Neato!


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