8th gradeSS: HW #1 In your sourcebook, write a journal entry pretending to be either a person living in the North OR the South during Reconstruction. Make up a name for yourself. What do you do for a living? How different is your life during Reconstruction. You should write more than one page for a quality entry. Due on Friday.
(i.e., Dear Diary, April 10, 1868….The humid hot air woke me long before I heard the rooster’s cry. Heaving a deep sigh, I reluctantly rose from my bed. I’m not sure what creaked more; my aching body or the bed. Life hasn’t been the same for us in Georgia after the war ended. General Sherman’s ruthless army burned our barn down to the ground. Thank goodness the house was spared. My dear Tom perished in the Battle of Gettysburg and I am left to care for our 3 children on my own. With no job and no money, I am forced to depend on the kindness of neighbors and friends for food. What was the purpose of all this fighting? To free all the slaves? I think not. The U.S. government merely wanted to punish us in the southern states for forming our Confederacy….
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