Civil+War,+ATM.


 * Topic:** Freedmen and white people's actions after the slaves were freed.


 * Focus:** How the freedmen didn't know what to do once they were on their own.


 * Reason for choice:** I think that we should be happy that we're so lucky and we don't have to deal with the awkward situations that there were after the slaves were freed.

Give your thesis the** **thesis test**
 * What's your point? (**[|**thesis**]**):** We're lucky that we didn't have to go through the stress and difficulty of the slaves being freed after the civil war.
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 * What are four various secondary sources you have found before your research?**


 * What are two primary sources you have found to help your research?**

1. The freedmen didn't know how to act as free people, because they had basically never been their own person. 2. The white people had to get used to colored people being free, since they had never been before. 3. The freedmen had relied on their masters their hole lives, so a lot of them ended up homeless once they were on their own. 4. In order to help the freedmen, people in the South had to start the Freedmen's Bureau, with some help from the North.
 * What four reasons do you have that will back up your point?**

The slaves didn't know how to act as free people, because they had basically never been their own person; -they were controlled by other people for so long, that they just didn't know how to act on their own. -they never got to show who they were, and express how they felt. -they basically didn't even have their own feelings anymore.
 * What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?**


 * What can you conclude from these facts?**


 * Sources:

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?** The white people had to get used to colored people being free, since they had never been before; -they were used to colored people being slaves. -they were used to not having to treat them the same. -they had to learn to act as if they were the same.


 * What can you conclude from these facts?

Sources:**

The freedmen had relied on their masters their hole lives, so a lot of them ended up homeless once they were on their own; -their "job" had always been to do what their masters told them to. -being a slave your whole life, you've technically never had your own life, so you don't know what to do once you do. -they'd never had jobs, so they had no where to take their lives once they were free.
 * What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?**


 * What can you conclude from these facts?

Sources:

What is your fourth reason and three to five facts to support it?** In order to help the freedmen, people in the South had to start the Freedmen's Bureau, with some help from the North; -most of the slaves had no where to go, so they ended up having to resort in helping them. -the bureau helped the Freedmen establish schools, legalize their marriages, and purchase land. -due to the severe racism that was still around, the bureau was forced to close in 1872.


 * What can you conclude from these facts?

Sources:**


 * Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?

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