Synthesizing Reconstruction Timeline Project
Directions On your 11 x 17 paper, please create a timeline from 1865-1896 with the following components for EACH topic: Name of the topic and the year Brief description Colorful, visual representation
Topics New State Constitutions (1865-1877) Radical Reconstruction (1865-1870s) Black Codes (1866) Sharecropping (1860s-1940s) Freedmen’s Bureau (1865-1872) Ku Klux Klan (1865-Today) Civil Rights Act of 1866 Military Reconstruction Act (1867) Fourteenth Amendment (1868) Johnson’s Impeachment (1868) Fifteenth Amendment (1870) African-American Officeholders (1870s-1880s) Enforcement Acts (1870-1871) Poll Tax (1870s-1966) Amnesty Act 1872 Jim Crow Laws (1876-1965) Compromise of 1877 Literacy Tests (1890s-1965) Plessy v. Fergusson (1896)