Warm-up for 02.13.12What do you think white Southern Democrats in Georgia thought about the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Place on continuum and explain your answer.

FULL support of the Freedmen’s Bureau

NO support for the

Freedmen’s Bureau

The Freedmen’s Bureau• The Freedmen’s bureau

was created by the U.S. government in 1865

• It was created to help freed slaves and poor whites do the following things:– Obtain food, clothing, and

shelter– Help them find jobs– Draw up labor contracts– Investigate claims of unfair

treatment– Give them a free, basic

education

C

The Freedmen’s Bureau• Its greatest

accomplishments had to do with education. The F.B. established more than 1,000 new schools and spent more than $5 million on education throughout the South after the war.

• The Freedmen’s Bureau was discontinued in 1872 because of a lack of funding and not enough agents to make the Bureau work well.

C

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Freedmen’s Bureau School

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Freedmen’s Bureau Seen Through Southern Eyes

Plenty to eat and

nothing to do.

If you were to give this image a title, what

would you title it and why?

Tenant Farming and Sharecropping• Without slaves, landowners needed

laborers to work their large farms.• Without jobs, shelter, food, and clothing,

freedmen needed a way to quickly get all these things after obtaining their freedom. –Two systems emerged: tenant farming

and sharecropping.• Cotton was still Georgia’s most important crop