Step Two: Explain Why It Matters
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CHAPTER 16 STUDY GUIDE
EXPLAIN WHY IT MATTERS
Put your reading into practice. Identify each term below, and then explain why it matters in U.S. history.
| TERM | WHO OR WHAT & WHEN | WHY IT MATTERS |
| Freedmen's Bureau (p. 460) | ||
| black codes (p. 463) | ||
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 (p. 465) | ||
| Fourteenth Amendment (p. 466) | ||
| Military Reconstruction Act (p. 468) | ||
| Fifteenth Amendment (p. 469) | ||
| carpetbaggers (p. 472) | ||
| scalawags (p. 472) | ||
| Ku Klux Klan (p. 472) | ||
| sharecropping (p. 474) | ||
| Redeemers (p. 479) | ||
| Compromise of 1877 (p. 482) |