Rebuilding the Union
Questions pages 533-537
Answer the questions on your own paper using complete sentences.

1. What were the years of Reconstruction?
2. Why does it make sense that the Freedmen’s Bureau set up schools?
3. Why did Andrew Johnson become president?
4. Why does it make sense that President Johnson thought he should have the job of managing Reconstruction?
5. What did Johnson offer most white Southerners?
6. Why does it make sense that some states refused to ratify the 13th Amendment?
7. What were the black codes?
8. Why does it make sense that the black codes were established in the South?
9. What did the Radical Republicans want?
10. What are civil rights?
11. How did President Johnson feel about the Civil Rights Act?
12. How did the Civil Rights Act become law?
13. What does the 14th Amendment state?
14. What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?
15. What were scalawags?
16. What were carpetbaggers?
17. Why does it make sense that carpetbaggers and scalawags went to the South during Reconstruction?
18. Why does it make sense that carpetbaggers and scalawags were hated in the South?
19. What political gains did African Americans make during Reconstruction?
20. Why does it make sense that Congress decided to impeach President Johnson?
21. What does it mean to impeach?
22. Where would the trial of Johnson be held?
23. What was the result of the trial?