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Reconstruction (1865-1876)

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Easily broken into pieces for several class sessions, this presentation is a great way to transition your class out of a Civil War unit and closer to the 20th century. Engaging photographs, including relevant maps and humorous political cartoons of the time, will draw your history students into this slideshow. The slides are well-organized and easy to understand; some resizing will make the presentation even easier to read.

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the fifteenth amendment, constitutional amendments, the fourteenth amendment, reconstruction, the reconstruction era, the emancipation proclamation, the united states civil war, abraham lincoln, united states presidents, andrew johnson, ulysses s. grant, black codes, the thirteenth amendment, unions

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13th amendment, 14th amendment, 15th amendment, abraham lincoln, andrew johnson, black codes, civil war, emancipation, freedman's bureau, reconstruction, sharecroppers, ulysses s. grant, union, wartime reconstruction, lincoln governments, wade-davis bill, social studies
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8th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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