Y Yannick Academy | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877

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Objectives

1 Understand the context of Reconstruction as a period of struggle to rebuild the nation after the Civil War.2 Distinguish between the two phases of Reconstruction: Presidential Reconstruction (more lenient) and Radical Reconstruction (stricter, led by Congress).3 Identify the three key constitutional amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) and explain how they abolished slavery, defined citizenship, and promised voting rights.4 Explain the role of the Freedmen's Bureau and the emergence of sharecropping as new economic and social systems for African Americans.5 Analyze the causes and consequences of the end of Reconstruction with the Compromise of 1877, leading to the decline of civil rights and the Jim Crow era.

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Understand the context of Reconstruction as a period of struggle to rebuild the nation after the Civil War.

Next Distinguish between the two phases of Reconstruction: Presidential Reconstruction (more lenient) and Radical Reconstruction (stricter, led by Congress).