HY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Sharecropping, Reconstruction Acts, Scalawag
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All rebel (confederate) leaders were pardoned by president johnson in 1868. After the war, southern people continued to believe that their view of secession was correct. Emancipation took effect unevenly in different parts of the conquered confederacy. Some slaves resisted the liberating union armies due to their loyalty to their masters. The church became the focus of black community life in the years following emancipation. Blacks formed their own churches pastured by their own ministers, and they had an opportunity for education. Blacks could now learn to read and write. Because many freedmen (people who were freed from slavery) were unskilled, without property or money, and had little knowledge of how to survive as free people, congress created the freedmen"s. It provided clothing, medical care, food, and education to both freedmen and white refugees. Union general oliver o. howard led the bureau. The bureau"s greatest success was teaching blacks to read.
