Reconstruction
Essential Questions
- How did the Radical Republicans’ plans for Reconstruction differ from Lincoln’s and Johnson’s?
- What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction?
- How and why did Reconstruction end?
Key Terms
Digital History Textbook
Reconstruction
Here you will learn about President Lincoln’s and President Johnson’s plans to readmit the Confederate states to the Union; the more stringent Congressional plan; the struggle between President Johnson and Congress, including the impeachment vote; the Reconstruction era’s contributions to civil rights; the reasons for Reconstruction’s demise; and the emergence of sharecropping.
Here you will learn about President Lincoln’s and President Johnson’s plans to readmit the Confederate states to the Union; the more stringent Congressional plan; the struggle between President Johnson and Congress, including the impeachment vote; the Reconstruction era’s contributions to civil rights; the reasons for Reconstruction’s demise; and the emergence of sharecropping.
- Reuniting the Union: A Chronology
- Birth of a Nation
- A New Birth of Freedom: The Day of Jubilee
- Emancipation in Comparative Perspective
- Sharecropping
- The Politics of Reconstruction
- Presidential Reconstruction
- Congressional Reconstruction
- The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
- Republican Governments in the South
- Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
- Redemption
- The End of Reconstruction
- The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876
- The Significance of Reconstruction
Assignments and Readings
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Slideshows
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