#Reconstruction

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People (5)

17th President of the United States and the first to be impeached

Abolitionist Senator Beaten on the Senate Floor, 1811–1874

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th President of the United States, whose disputed election ended Reconstruction

Thaddeus Stevens

Radical Republican Congressman and Architect of Reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant

Commanding general of the Union Army and 18th President of the United States

Places (3)

Appomattox Court House

The Virginia village where the Civil War effectively ended, April 9, 1865

Capital of the Confederacy and center of Virginia's long reckoning with its past

Where the Civil War began and where nullification was born

Eras (1)

The unfinished project of rebuilding the South and remaking American citizenship, 1865–1877

Events (5)

Assassination of Lincoln

The murder of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, April 1865

Election of 1876

The disputed election that ended Reconstruction and handed the White House to Hayes

Freedmen's Bureau

The federal agency that tried — and was not allowed — to secure Black Americans' freedom

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

The first presidential impeachment — and a referendum on who would control Reconstruction

The railroad collapse that triggered the Long Depression and ended Reconstruction

Documents (4)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

The first federal law to define American citizenship and guarantee equal rights regardless of race

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Reconstruction's promise of equal public life — struck down 89 years before it could be replaced

Fifteenth Amendment

The 1870 amendment that prohibited denying the vote on the basis of race

Fourteenth Amendment

The 1868 amendment that defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law

Concepts (3)

The system of racial segregation that governed the South from Reconstruction to the 1960s

The Legal and Social System That Enforced Racial Separation Across American Life

The Confederate mythology that rewrote the Civil War — and shaped a century of American race relations

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