Give Me Liberty! Chapter 15 Reading Guide
Academic Vocab
Chapter 15 Introduction: Sherman Land
Freedmen’s
Bureau
The Meaning of Freedom
Andrew Johnson
 Blacks and the Meaning of Freedom
Sharecropping
 Families in Freedom
Crop-Lien
 Church and School
 Political Freedom
 Land, Labor, and Freedom
 Masters without Slaves
 The Free Labor Vision
 The Freedmen’s Bureau
 The Failure of Land Reform
 Toward a New South
 The White Farmer
 The Urban South
 Aftermaths of Slavery
Answer: What visions of freedom did the former slaves and slaveholders pursue in the
postwar South?
“honest yeoman”
Charles Summer
Thaddeus Stevens
Lyman Trumbull
Civil Rights Bill
14th Amendment
Naturalization Act
of 1790
Dred Scott
decision
The Making of Radical Reconstruction
 Andrew Johnson
 The Failure of Residential Reconstruction
 The Black Codes
 The Radical Republicans
 The Origins of Civil Rights
 The Fourteenth Amendment
 The Reconstruction Act
 Impeachment and the Election of Grant
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“White man’s
government”
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
15th amendment
Abby Kelley
 The Fifteenth Amendment
 The Great Constitutional Revolution
 Boundaries of Freedom
 The Rights of Women
 Feminists and Radicals
Lucy Stone
National Women’s
Suffrage
Association
Answer: What were the sources, goals, and competing visions for Reconstruction?
The Union League
Carpetbaggers
James Alcorn
Radical Reconstruction in the South
 The Tocsin of Freedom
 The Black Officeholder
 Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
 Southern Republicans in Power
 The Quest for Prosperity
Answer: What were the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South?
Colfax, Louisiana,
massacre (1873)
The Overflow of Reconstruction
 Reconstruction’s Opponents
Enforcement Acts
 “A Reign of Terror”
Horace Greeley
 The Liberal Republicans
“natural leaders”
 The North’s Retreat
Slaughterhouse
Cases
 The Triumph of the Redeemers
Rutherford B.
Hayes
 The Disputed Election Bargain of 1877
 The End of Reconstruction
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Answer: What were the main factors, in both the North and South, for the abandonment of
Reconstruction?
KEY TERMS AND PEOPLE
black families
Black Codes
Edwin Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Andrew Johnson
Charles Sumner
“swing around the circle”
“waving the bloody shirt”
Redeemers
Compromise of 1877
Freedmen’s Bureau
Fifteenth Amendment
literacy tests
Bradwell v. Illinois
Ku Klux Klan
Whiskey Ring
Enforcement Acts
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Slaughterhouse Cases
Redeemers
Bargain of 1877
scalawag
Black Codes
Thaddeus Stevens
Rutherford B. Hayes
the Freedman’s Bureau
sharecropping
crop-lien system
James Pike
Special Field Order 15
Lyman Trumbull
Hiram Revels
Ulysses S. Grant
Horace Greeley
carpetbaggers and scalawags
Enforcement Acts
Blanche Bruce
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
carpetbaggers
Howard University
impeachment
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