Freedmen needed to decide where to live and how to support themselves. Many also searched for lost family members. Not all were young or healthy enough to leave the plantations where they had been living. Some struggled with poverty and illness.
Exact PLATO answer:
Answers will vary but should touch on the fact that Black people had been "given" land to work during the War, which was now scheduled to revert back to the antebellum owners, and Black people were protesting this as unfair. Reflections should include a reference to the fact that the federal government had issued amnesty or pardons to the former landowners, so the case of ownership was not clear-cut. Reflections should also discuss the lack of options for Black people who were cheated, subjected to physical violence, or otherwise denied the rights they thought had been secured with the end of the war.
<span>The storming of the Bastille was a major turning point of the war. It turned the attention away from the battles of third estate and the crown directly to the people. With the bourgeoisie invading and causing direct damage to the Bastille, they started and unfortunately broadcast major conflicts that were to come as the Revolution would eventually turn into a Civil War and then a fight for nationhood as it progressed into the Napoleonic phase of the Revolution.</span>