RECONSTRUCTION

‍The term reconstruction refers to the years from 1865 to 1877 when the American people reestablished the Southern states as an integral part of the Union. Below is a PowerPoint on Reconstruction.



1863
Lincoln's Ten Per Cent Plan

1864
Wade Davis Bill 1864

1865
Lincoln's Assassination

Freedman's Bureau

Thirteenth Amendment

Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

Black Codes

Ku Klux Klan

1866
Civil Rights Act

1867
Tenure of Office Act

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

First Reconstruction Act

1868
Fourteenth Amendment

1870
Fifteenth Amendment

Force Acts

1876/1877
Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877