SECTION 1 The End of Slavery, p. 391
What steps did African Americans take to reunite families divided by slavery?
How did most former slaves acquire land of their own?
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau and how effective was it?
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Section 2 Life after Slavery, p. 400
What role did the black church play in African-American life in the post-war decades?
Why was education so important to African Americans?
Describe the violence directed at southern blacks in the aftermath of the war.
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SECTION 3 The Crusade for Political And Civil Rights, p. 407
What was presidential reconstruction and whose interests did it serve?
What were the black codes and what did they mean for African Americans?
How did blacks respond to presidential reconstruction?
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SECTION 4 The Radical Republicans, p. 412
Who were the Radical Republicans?
What was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?
How did African American men gain the right to vote?
What was radical Reconstruction and how did white Southerners respond to it?
