Imagine that you are living in Alabama shortly after the Reconstruction.It has been 10 months since your father moved the family to another area of the state. He started a new job as a factory worker, hoping to improve the quality of your family’s life and your finances. You had to leave your grandparents, your friends, and the farm where you grew up.
Write a letter to your fourth grade cousin in another state telling him or her how your life has changed. Be very specific!
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March 3rd, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Hey,Richard it has been great so far,but there is a lot of bulying you wouldn’t like it here. When ever I try to sit by a black person they would go sit in the back of the bus.I think its because of thsos Jim Crow Laws that we learned in history before I moved. So, try send me a letter soon.
sincerly,
Hannah Dumas
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:30 pm
dear cousin, since i moved here it hasnt been so good. i miss my friends alot, it os bouring her with out them . and i miss cousin billy bob and all his funny jokes . i have to do more farm work than usaul becouse of the reconstuctoin it has been tu real tough well that is all for now your cousin, bobby joe
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Hey! Its been weird aroud here because everybody is building their new houses. I wish I could come back because i miss my friends and my family back there. There is a new card game everybody is playing that looks fun but you could lose lots of your stuff. You could lose your riches or you could lose your job also.The army is incharge here. My father is working as a factory worker.
Sincearly your cousin John
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Dear couson I have changed alot here in alabama there is fresh food market the schools are fun and there is puplic transportation. there are plays and this state is more save than our other homestate. my father has been really happy the last few days because of his fantastic new job. my mother also has been realy joyful everyone is in fine shape. Love,Victoria.
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:31 pm
To:jona
It has been really hard for me becouse my dad moved my family to a diffrent area of alabama. and my dad haveing a knew job hoping to inprove our finances. and we had to leave all of our freinds grandparents and its been hard for my family
love: judah your cousin
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Dear Zack,
I miss the family so much! Tell them that I miss them so much too. It’s been really lonely here in Mississppi. I want to see ya’ll and hangout with my friends. All I have that’s the closest thing to a friend is the hogs and sheep. My Dad is always working, and my Mom is either make food, walking the dogs, sleeping, or babysitting the neighbor’s baby. I can’t wait till I come and visit! See you at the family’s Thanksgiviving dinner!
Sincerly, Jacob
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Dear,Josh
It has ten months since my father moved to Birmingham AL.He is now working in a factory hopeing to make life better.Unfortinately the north destroyed the factory and needs help reconstructing it!Unfortanately again i was the only one in my family who wanted to help!So here i am with other people trying to reconstruct it!Josh if yuo can find help please find.
Love,nick
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Dear grace things have been i little wierd since Reconstuction.We ended slavery for are state,wrote a new constituion and elected new officals.People are mad because the constution said African americans didnt get to vote.So the constution was rewriten.And women had rights to vote and farmers got even poorer
your cusion
maryb
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Dear,Christopher
It has been 10 months sense we’ve moved here. It’s been tough living here. My father is working at a factory thinking it will help us. I hope he is right and we didn’t just move here for no stinking reason. And it looks like African Americans are still not being treted as equal citizens.
And I also see a lot of carpetbaggers out their working also. And fourth grade is going alright. I hope fourth grade is going well for you. See you later
From,Brock
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Dear Emily,
Life has changed alot scince the cival war all my freinds moved but all mt hourses and cattle are still here african amaricans have some writes now and my dad is working like 24-7 I really miss you I hope your life is going well by.
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Dear,Harris
It has been changing alot around here oh and did I metion that moved to Alabama,and my dad got a job as a factory worker.Where I moved they treat African Americans horrible I know that not many people where I used to live and where I live now dont care but I do!They dont let African Americans use the same restrooms,water fountains,restaurants,swimming pools, playgrounds and libraries as white people and I bet there are many more things they seperate African Americans and whites from. Also now Birmingham is one of the fist major cities YAY!!! so to sum that up African Americans are being treated the same.Now lets start talkin about me fourth grade is going fine getting good grades as always. So there was alot of reconstruction in alabama,and thats all thanks for listen cuz
please write back Madi
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Dear,Tyler
How how are you doing?I have been very sad and lonely down here.It has been very loud because everyone is rebuilding their houses because,after the recontruction after the Civil War.I wish i could come vist you but i can’t.It has been tough times because i had to leave my grandparents and my friends.I cry every time i think of everyone i had to leave.
Love,Hanna
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:54 pm
hey blake hows it going i’ve been here for a year.I like it here but i miss you. Its hard to earn a living here espshely for slaves there still not treated right.my dads working at a factory.Im fine my life has changed were pade very litle.hope fourth grade is good for you because its going good for me by.
sincerly yours,tyler
March 3rd, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Dear couson alot has changed here in Alabama sence we moved from the farm. I have ben seeing a bunch of slavery lately and carpetbaggres and scalwagas. There are many plantions and white people. Every day I haft to to ride a steam boat to school 4th grade is going great.Plese wright back soon cuson from Ian your couson.
March 3rd, 2011 at 5:05 pm
DEAR.beka WE have been in GULF SHORES almost a year.MY family is going to move some where else in GULF SHORES in JUNE all the family is pitching in.SO if any of your side of the family would help out that would be great.love brooklynn
March 4th, 2011 at 8:39 am
dear mario things have been strange after reconstrutin. Slavery finaly ended. We also made a new constitution. Everyone can vote. Slaves where free people.
March 7th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
dear.Beka it has been almost a year since we live down hear in Gulf Shores and my father work in a factory and it had glass every were and I was the only one to help redo the windows and pick up the glass . sincely brooklynn