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Effects of Reconstruction on American Life
Previous Unit
Civil War
I. Basic Provisions of
Constitutional
Amendments
II. Reconstruction
Policies and
Problems
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 Southern military
leaders
 African Americans
 Civil Rights Act of
1866
 Northern soldiers
 Freedmen’s Bureau
 Carpetbaggers
 Black Codes
 Compromise of 1877
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13 Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Equal protection
under the law for all
citizens
III. Lasting
Individual Legacies
IV. Treatment of
African Americans
 Abraham Lincoln
 Robert E. Lee
 Frederick Douglass
 Racial segregation
 “Jim Crow” laws
 Booker T.
Washington
 W.E.B. Dubois
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Westward Expansion
Reconstruction and African
American Challenges
What are the basic provisions of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
What were the Reconstruction policies for the South?
What were the lasting impacts of the actions of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee
and Frederick Douglass?
What is racial segregation?
How were African Americans discriminated against?
How did African Americans respond to discrimination and “Jim Crow” laws?
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Black Codes
Sharecroppers
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Carpetbaggers
Freedmen’s Bureau
Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Frederick Douglass
Compromise of 1877 W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
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Abraham Lincoln
 Made the Reconstruction plan calling for
____________________
 He thought preservation of the ____________________
was more important than punishing the South
Robert E. Lee
 Urged Southerners to ____________________ with
Northerners at the end of the war and reunite as
Americans when some wanted to continue to fight
 Became president of ____________________, which
is now known as Washington and Lee University
Frederick Douglass
 Fought for adoption of constitutional amendments
that guaranteed ____________________ rights
 Was a powerful voice for human rights and civil
___________________ for all
Booker T. Washington
 Believed equality could be achieved through
____________________ education
 Accepted ____________________ segregation
W.E.B. Dubois
 Believed in full ____________________,
____________________,
____________________, and
____________________ rights for African
Americans
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Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. Dubois
 Born as a slave in Virginia
 Founded Tuskegee Institute
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 Born Free in Massachusetts
 Education at Harvard
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