Chapter 15: What is Freedom?: Reconstruction, 1865 - 1877
Review Terms
Special Order #15
Freedmen’s Bureau
Sharecropping and “Crop Lien” Systems
Andrew Johnson
Black Codes
Civil Rights Bill
14th Amendment
Reconstruction Act
Impeachment
“waving the bloody shirt”
15th Amendment
Union League
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
KKK
Liberal Republicans
Redeemers
Bargain of 1877
Review Questions
How did emancipation affect families and religious life?
Why was the idea of getting “40 acres and a mule” so important to former slaves?
What was the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Why was the failure to redistribute land such an important problem?
Why did Radical Republicans reject the state governments created under President
Johnson?
What events caused moderates to join the radicals?
How did Reconstruction transform the idea of citizenship?
Why did the Reconstruction amendments divide the women’s rights movement?
What role did black voters and office-holders play during Reconstruction?
How was Reconstruction overthrown?
Who in the South was targeted by KKK violence?
What is the significance of the Bargain of 1877? (Often referred to as the “Compromise
of 1877.”)