Step Two: Explain Why It Matters

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CHAPTER 16 STUDY GUIDE

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EXPLAIN WHY IT MATTERS

Put your reading into practice. Identify each term below, and then explain why it matters in U.S. history.

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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)