Feb. 5- Questions

Law Creating the Freedmen's Bureau

 1.       After reading the Bill, what plans do you see laid out for the former slaves?

Maybe get some free land that they were distributing then work and get money.

 

2.    What do you think could have been added to the bill to garner broader support? What could have been changed or taken away?

They could have added something about health issues. Everyone gets sick so the blacks should have more exposure to some type of medical treatment. I don't see anything major that should be taken out. If I had to pick something, it would probably be the whole part with the commissioner.

 

3.      Aside from their opposition to the abolition of slavery, what problems do you think the members of Southern States had with the Bill? Can you think of anything that would have appeased them?

A problem could have been that they were still not equal. And something they would be happy about is that the Secretary of War gave them clothes, fuel, and temporary shelters; they were also helping the blacks get jobs.

 

 

Southern Treatment by the Federal Government,

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940

 1.    What is her attitude toward white Southerners and their treatment by the federal government? 

She is not particularly fond of it.

 

2.     What do you think accounts for her views? 

She did not like it when the soldiers were shooting at the blacks to scare them off. The soldiers did not want the black men to vote and she did not like that.

 

3.      Would people with different views agree with her conclusions about "peace" in the South? Why or why not? 

There is always going to be two sides of an argument. Not everybody will agree with her because they don't like the changes that are happening; unfortunately they are anything but peaceful.