Reconstruction Era 1865-1877

Key Vocabulary

Lincoln’s Ten Percent PlanRadical Republicans Reconstruction13th Amendment14th Amendment15th AmendmentBlack CodesDisenfranchisePoll TaxLiteracy Test

SharecroppingFreedmen's BureauReconstruction ActScalawags and CarpetbaggersKu Klux KlanConvict LeasingCivil Rights Act of 1875Redemption (in the South)“The Lost Cause”

Learning Targets

❏ I can analyze ways that Southerners resisted Reconstruction policies❏ I can analyze the impacts of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments ❏ I can make an argument about the extent to which Reconstruction was successful ❏ I can make and defend an argument about the placement of Confederate symbols and

monuments on public and private property.