RECONSTRUCTION After the Civil War

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RECONSTRUCTIONAfter the Civil War

• 1865-1877

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Key terms

• Reconstruction
• Freedmens Bureau
• Black Codes
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Carpetbaggers
• Ku Klux Klan

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Reconstruction

• 1865 to 1877
• Rebuilding the Union of states
• How Southern states would be readmitted to the
  Union
• Reconstruct American society

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Civil War Amendments

• Abolished slavery
• 13th Amendment
• Expanded citizenship to blacks
• 14th Amendment
• Gave blacks the right to vote
• -15th Amendment
• Helped blacks get and education and find work
• -Freedmens Bureau

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The 15th Amendment
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Southern Perceptions
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White Southerners React to Reconstruction

• Ku Klux Klan formed in 1866
• The Klan became increasingly violent
• Prevent freed slaves from voting
• Several thousand people were killed by the Klan
• This included some whites sympathetic to African
  Americans

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RECONSTRUCTION COMES TO AN END

• 1877-Election and Black Codes