Reconstruction Webquest
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Directions: Complete the following timeline of Reconstruction by using credible web sources.
AVOID WIKIPEDIA—it is not always credible! Write your sources in the box.
Period known as
Presidential Reconstruction
Ratification of the
14th Amendment
Ratification of the
15th Amendment
President: ____________________
What did this
Amendment do?
What did this
Amendment do?
Changes or Presidential Policies:
1.
Increase in Violence by the Ku Klux Klan, a
terrorist organization that wanted to “redeem” the
South with white supremacy.
2.
1865
1867
1868
1870
Beginning of Period known as
Radical Reconstruction
Election of the
First Black Senator
What did this
Amendment do?
“Radical” Political Party: _____________
Name: __________
Changes or Policies Enacted:
1. Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Explanation:
State: __________
One Additional Fact:
Closing of the
Freedmen’s Bureau,
which had been founded in
________ with the goal of
___________________
___________________
___________________
Programs or Policies:
2.
1.
2.
1877
End of Reconstruction:
Withdrawal of Federal Troops
from the South
Ratification of the
13th Amendment
1872