Freedman's bureau - ANSWER provided ex-slaves with economic and legal resources
Only about a quarter of African Americans were literate by 1880 - ANSWER
president Johnson views on freed slaves - ANSWER he saw emancipation as a means
to "breakdown an odious and dangerous[planter] aristocracy," noT to empower blacks
Black Codes - ANSWER Intended to reduce blacks to a condition as close to slavery as
possible
Document 14.1
Colonel Whittlesey
Report on the Freedmen's Bureau - ANSWER Bureau is intended to 'aid the destitute,'
protect freedmen from injustice assist freedmen in obtaining employment and to encourage
education.
"Contrary to fears and predictions of many, the great mass of colored people have remained
quietly at work"
"A much larger amount of vagrancy exists among whites than blacks"
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER addressing citizenship right sand equal protections
of said rights
1
Only about a quarter of African Americans were literate by 1880 - ANSWER
president Johnson views on freed slaves - ANSWER he saw emancipation as a means
to "breakdown an odious and dangerous[planter] aristocracy," noT to empower blacks
Black Codes - ANSWER Intended to reduce blacks to a condition as close to slavery as
possible
Document 14.1
Colonel Whittlesey
Report on the Freedmen's Bureau - ANSWER Bureau is intended to 'aid the destitute,'
protect freedmen from injustice assist freedmen in obtaining employment and to encourage
education.
"Contrary to fears and predictions of many, the great mass of colored people have remained
quietly at work"
"A much larger amount of vagrancy exists among whites than blacks"
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER addressing citizenship right sand equal protections
of said rights
1
