1. Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
Chapter 17
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath

2. Reconstruction:
failure-of-reconstruction

3. Chapter 17: Section 1 Reconstruction
Period of rebuilding throughout the South
Agency that helped former slaves transition to freedom
Confederate sympathizer that assassinated Lincoln in 1865
Abolished slavery in all parts of the United States
Freedmen’s Bureau
John Wilkes Booth
13th Amendment

4. Lincoln Assassination
booth#lincoln-the-diary-of-john-wilkes-booth

5. Chapter 17: Section 2 Black Codes
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Southern laws that aimed to control and exploit African Americans
Granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States
Granted the right to vote to any male citizen regardless of race, color, or previous servitude

6. Chapter 17: Section 3 Ku Klux Klan Sharecropping
Secret society organized to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights
system where a farmer works the land for an owner in return for a share of the crops

7. Ku Klux Klan

8. Chapter 17: Section 4
Compromise of 1877
Deal that settled the presidential election of and ended Reconstruction

9. Chapter 17: Section 5 Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Laws that required whites and African Americans to be separated in most public places
Supreme Court case that ruled segregation was legal

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