92. In 1865 an assignment was held between representatives of an African American community in Savannah. Georgia and Edwin Staunton. Secretary of War. and Major General Sherman refering subjects of the freedwoman in Georgia. Land was set aside. 40 estates. and a mule that could no longer be used by the Army to set up a community of their ain.

1. Black leaders believed that having land was indispensable to freedom because by them having their ain land they would be able to back up themselves by themselves.
2. Blacks understand their relationship to the national authorities as the Civil War drew to a stopping point as being dependent upon their freedom.
Q: Why 40 estates and a broken down mule? Do you believe they deserved more/less land? Did they non merit a more utile mule? 93. The commission on behalf of the freedwomans sent a missive to Andrew Johnson in 1865 refering maintaining the land. which had been set aside for them after the war. which had been rumored to be given back to the old proprietor.

1. It was of import for the suppliants to obtain the land on Edisto Island as opposed to set down elsewhere in the state because there was a legal understanding made that should be adhered to.
2. The relationship between having land and freedom to them is non holding to trust on anyone else and being able to experience equal to the white work forces.
Q: What similarities does this have to the Native Americans? 94. The Mississippi black codification of 1865 was regulations and ordinances on which African Americans had to adhere to.
1. I think that the province of Mississippi required all black individuals to subscribe annually labour contracts but non white citizens because the drifter jurisprudence merely applied to freedwomans and it was a manner of modulating work for the plantations.

2. The basic rights that were granted to the fomer slaves were the right to marriage. ownership of land. and engagement in the tribunal system but merely if it was non covering in all white instances. The basic rights that were denied to them by the black codification were the right to vote. ain pieces. and marry/cohabitate/ fornicate outside of their race.

Q: Do you experience as though the freedwomans were truly free since these regulations and ordinances were bestowed upon them? 95. This was a sharecropping contract between Thomas J. Ross. a land proprietor. and 8 freedwomans. The contract set the regulations. ordinances. and wages for sharecropping Ross’s land.

1. The contract limits the freedom of the labourers in that they are still under the power of the land proprietor. with basically the same regulations as being a slave except they were acquiring paid in the harvest for their work.

2. The benefits for the freed people of the sharecropping agreement the security of land to work and half the crop. the hazards of the sharecropping agreement would hold been the opportunity of small harvest and still being dependant on the White persons.

Q: Do you experience as though sharecropping as a whole. with the good and the bad. was a good thought? 96. During the Reconstruction period Elizabeth Staunton demanded the thought of equality for adult females. In her essay she expressed ways that work forces and adult females are equal but non seen as being so. she besides believed that adult females should be able to vote.

1. Stanton defined the “social revolution” the United States underwent after the Civil War as because it went deep down to the really foundation of society.
2. Stanton believed that industrial freedom within the household could be established by first altering the Torahs and public sentiment.
Q: How do you believe that adult females felt non holding any rights even after the Civil war that one time once more established freedom for all. 97. Frederick Douglass gave a address. Composite State. in Boston in 1869 refering rights for Asian-Americans. He condemned anti-Asian favoritism and called for equal rights for all Americans.

1. What Douglas meant by the term “Composite Nation” was that everyone in the state came from different topographic points to organize one state.
2. He believed that people should be allowed to travel freely from one state to another because he felt as though we were allowed to go to other states why couldn’t other races?
Q: Do you believe that Douglas would hold the same positions for current times? 98. Robert B. Elliott delivered a address to Congress in 1864 refering a measure that he supported. that subsequently became the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

1. Elliot defended the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Bill by stating that the measure would settle the political position forever.
2. Elliott referred to the “cornerstone speech” of Alexander H. Stephens in doing his statement because it showed how much advancement had been made.
Q: Why did all the provinces non follow the Civil Rights Bill?