4 EVALUATING INFORMATION On the lines provided, write T if the statement is true,
or write F if the statement is false.
1. Juneteenth is celebrated in Texas every year on June 1.
2. The term freedpeople is used to describe former slaves.
3. After emancipation, many former slaves searched for family members
from whom they had been separated.
4. Reconstruction lasted from 1860 to 1865.
5. The Freedmen's Bureau was created by the Texas state legislature.
6. The Freedmen's Bureau and churches helped African Americans open
many schools in Texas.
7. Illiteracy among African Americans dropped from 95 percent in 1865 to
10 percent in 1880.
8. All Texans supported the efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau to help
African Americans.
9. After President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Andrew Johnson
became the new president.
10. Under the new president's Reconstruction plan, voters in the former
Confederate states had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States.
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