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Chapter 17 Reconstructing the State 89
Section 2 Economic and Social Reconstruction
Lesson Review
Review of Economic and Social Reconstruction
Directions: Review pages 430-439, close your textbooks, and then answer the following questions T for True or F for
False. With a partner or in a small group, compare and discuss your answers. en, open your textbooks and search for
quotes that support your answers. If your original answer is wrong, simply change it and write the quote.
T F 1. e Freedmen’s Bureau was founded to assist only recently freed slaves.
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T F 2. After the war, President Johnson promised a mule and 40 acres of land to all recently freed slaves.
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T F 3. e Freedmen’s Bureau helped establish a standard freedman wage at $12 per day.
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T F 4. Former slaves and poor whites who had their own mules and tools but no land often became tenant farmers.
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T F 5. e convict lease system was intended to ensure that prisoners were treated fairly.
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T F 6. After the war, many churches divided based on the race of church members.
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T F 7. During Reconstruction, Georgia passed the first state laws for public education.
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