African Americans actively sought ways to shed the vestiges of slavery. Many discarded the names their former enslavers had chosen for them and adopted new names like "" and "" that affirmed their new identities as free citizens.

“Freeman”

“Lincoln”

Explanation:

Reconstruction was a period of restructuring the social and political life of the blacks in the South who had victims and witnesses experiences resulting in physical and emotional suffering. During the reconstruction period, there was a drive for racial pride and self-identification in the South. Former slaves were reorganizing heir lives by shedding the names assigned to them by their former masters and choosing new names to assert their newly acquired freedom.

A dialogue between two soldiers discussing their hard times at Valley Forge would most likely focus on the difficult conditions that were faced by the Continental Army at Valley Forge because of the cold winter. The Continental Army was stationed at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777 and 1778. The soldiers were not prepared for the winter and only one in three had shoes. There were not proper nourishments (food) for the soldiers and disease was rampant in the camp. These were a few of the factors that made life in Valley Forge at this time difficult for the Continental soldiers camped there.