c. 1865-c. 1877:
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?
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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