Reconstruction
(Technically 1863 to 1877, but feel free to go beyond those years)
On this page and your own paper, provide notes, definitions, ideas and further resources for all of the following terms. Try to keep your notes themed around Reconstruction. Feel free to go beyond the technical constraints of Reconstruction, but try to keep your ideas relevant, since some of these terms encompass far more.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Black Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Republican Party
Radical Republicans
Democratic Party (USA & CSA)
Redeemers
Ku Klux Klan
White League
Red Shirts
Union Army (after the Civil War)
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
Freedmen
Compromise of 1877