BIOL 1001 Chapter : Chapter 26 Part I Students
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Evaluate the successes and failures of reconstruction. These men were denied the right to vote. They paid about 5% of crops and were basically pushed aside. The union was more concerned with restoring itself than african. A free labor system was made to help the free man. It redistributed land to freed men and got a share of the crops. Built schools and learned to read and write. They began getting land and working for themselves. William sherman issued a field order to redistribute land in florida, georgia, and south carolina where only freedman could settle on this land. Congress created the freedman"s bureau, which was federal agency that provided slaves food, clothing, and medicine. The head of the bureau was oliver howard, who dictated his agents to rent the land to the free people. The civil rights act of 1866 guarantee due process and basic civil rights, received equal protection under the law, citizenship.
