African American History - Wk 1 Terms & Self Study Questions

Competing Notions of Freedom

Reconstruction

Freedmen’s Bureau

10% Plan

“Restoration”

Radical Reconstruction

Thirteenth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment

“Scalawags”

“Carpetbaggers”

KKK

Black Codes

Compromise of 1877

What were the differences between Lincoln’s view of what Reconstruction should do compared to what the Radical Republicans viewed as the purpose of Reconstruction?

How did women’s suffrage groups view the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments? What did they want for women that they felt had been overlooked by those amendments?

How did the lives of African Americans change following Emancipation? What were some improvements to their condition? How were their hopes hindered by white southerners?

What problems emerged in the North and West that caused the federal government to abandon Reconstruction? What did Reconstruction accomplish? What did it fail to accomplish?

What did the Compromise of 1877 do? What were the conditions of this “compromise”?