crises did the United States face immediately following the Civil War? In what ways did freed African Americans demonstrate hope after the Civil War?...

Chapter 14

1. What crises did the United States face immediately following the Civil War?
2. In what ways did freed African Americans demonstrate hope after the Civil War?
3. In what ways did White southerners demonstrate fear after the Civil War?
4. What were "Black Codes"?
5. How did Reconstruction occur through both presidential proclamation and congressional action?
6. What did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution do?
7. Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached and what happened during his impeachment proceedings?
8. How can novels serve as historical sources?
9. How did congressional action during Reconstruction affect African Americans, women, and members of the southern rebellion?
10. What was the Freedman's Bureau and what did it do?
11. How did economic conditions following the Civil War cause freed African Americans to return to dependency on former masters?
12. What is sharecropping?
13. How did Reconstruction policies affect the lives and livelihoods of White southern farmers?
14. What types of African-American self-help institutions developed during the Reconstruction period, and what roles did these institutions play in African Americans' lives?
15. What were the features of Republican rule in the South during Reconstruction?
16. What was the "Mississippi Plan"?
17. What were the Force Acts?
18. In what ways did national priorities shift in the United States between 1865 and 1875?
19. What was the Compromise of 1877 and how did it facilitate the end of Reconstruction?