1. What were some white landowners attempting to achieve through their violence against African-Americans?
2. Who are the Radical Republicans and what do they hope to achieve?
3. What is the Freedman's Bureau? What did it do? Why was the Freedman's Bureau unsuccessful?
4. Why do many historians consider former President Andrew Johnson to be a white supremacist? He was against slavery; why was he AGAINST equal rights for African-Americans?
5. How did many Confederates regain government power in the Southern states?
6. What are "Black Codes?"
• What were their immediate effects?
• What is their legacy?
7. What were the two competing theories of what to do about Reconstruction?
• Johnson's Plan:
• Radicals in Congress:
8. What is the "selfish" reason Louisiana Republicans wanted to give African-Americans the right to vote? Why did black Union soldiers feel they deserved the right to vote?
9. Describe what happened at the Mechanics Hall in New Orleans in 1866. What part did President Johnson play in it?
10. What are the Reconstruction Acts? What do they represent to Southerners?
11. How did the Ku Klux Klan begin? Why did it start? Why didn't local officials stop the Klan when it became violent?