Reconstruction

Four years after the start of the Civil War it has finally come to a close. The reunited nation has many challenges ahead of them. During Reconstruction the nations looks to rebuild the South and fix the Federal Government.

Guiding Question:

Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?

KEY VOCABULARY: feasible, freedman, freedman's bureau, 13th amendment, black codes, radical reconstruction, 14th amendment, carpetbagger, scalawags, 15th amendment, KKK, sharecropper, poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause, segregation, Jim Crow Laws, Plessy vs. Ferguson