Which of the following statements BEST captures attitudes toward the education of freedpeople during Reconstruction?
a. Although the Freedmen’s Bureau tried to interest freedpeople in education, most southern blacks were more concerned with earning a living than with schooling.
b. The Freedmen’s Bureau almost single-handedly established, funded, and supervised a school system for southern blacks.
c. Although freedpeople eagerly sought education, the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau refused to support their goals, and required all former slaves—men, women, and children—to enter into labor contracts.
d. Freedpeople often took the initiative of creating their own schools, but depended on financial assistance from the Freedmen’s Bureau and northern churches.
d. Freedpeople often took the initiative of creating their own schools, but depended on financial assistance from the Freedmen’s Bureau and northern churches.
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A) were becoming independent rulers B) were concerned about imperial power C) were threatened by imperial power D) could no longer count on the imperial government for protection
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A) had a sense of community independent from their white masters. B) had broken all ties with African culture. C) had been absorbed into a culture of inclusion. D) were incapable of resistance without white leadership.
_____ resembles the sort of market gardening that many subsistence and community gardeners continued to pursue in the twentieth century.
A. Jungle clearing B. Horticulture C. Desertification D. Salinization