STEP 1: EXPLAIN WHY IT MATTERS

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
black codes
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
Military Reconstruction Act
Fifteenth Amendment
carpetbaggers
scalawag
Ku Klux Klan
sharecropping
Redeemers
Compromise of 1877