Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867 after the Civil War was over. It placed a Northern military in charge of civilian life in the South.

Post Civil War: Reconstruction for Kids

Reconstruction - Military Rule in the South - How did this government by military rule work?

Demobilization - Sending soldiers home

Johnson's Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson (Democrat) takes over after Lincoln is assassinated

Congressional Reconstruction

Formation of the Freedmen's Bureau, a temporary federal agency

Scalawags (White Southern Republicans) and Carpetbaggers (White Northern Republicans)

Birth of the Ku Klux Klan

14th Amendment (right of African Americans to citizenship), repeal of Black Codes

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) Takes Over as President

15th Amendment (right of African American males to vote)

End of Reconstruction with election of President Rutherford Hayes, a former Union general

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Reconstruction Lesson Plans for Teachers

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Creating a New Nation

Creating a New Government

Western Expansion

Brink of the Storm and the Civil War

Growth in the West

The Nation Grows

World War I, The Great War

The Roaring 20s

The Great Depression

World War II

Slavery in America

Segregation for Kids - Civil Rights

US Holidays

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