Reconstruction
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Extra websites to supplement your research:
University of Houston's Digital History: Reconstruction
Harper's Weekly Reports: Focus on Black History
Freedman's Bureau
Radical Republicans
Encyclopedia Britannica: Radical Republicans
Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls: Report of the Women's Rights Convention
Carlisle Indian School
Dickinson College: Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center
KKK
Southern Poverty Law Center: KKK, a History of Racism
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Plessy v. Ferguson
OurDocuments.gov: Plessy v. Ferguson
Black Codes
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Black Codes
Civil Rights Case (1883)
Encyclopedia Britannica: Civil Rights Cases
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
American Social History Project: 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
National Constitution Center: 13th Amendment
Primary Documents in American History: 13th Amendment
OurDocuments.gov: 14th Amendment
Primary Documents in American History: 14th Amendment
OurDocuments.gov: 15th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Ferris State University: Jim Crow Museum
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Jim Crow Laws
Election of 1876
PBS: Hayes-Tilden Election (1876)
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library: Disputed Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
Dawes Act
Nebraska Studies: the Dawes Act
Homestead Act
OurDocuments.gov: Homestead Act
National Archives: Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
OurDocuments.gov: Pacific Railway Act
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Office of the Historian: Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts
Harvard Univeristy Library Open Collections Program: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
