Reconstruction: Objectives
After you have completed this section, you will be able to:
- Describe the effects that the Civil War had on the Southern infrastructure.
- Understand the economic and social changes that came with the end of slavery.
- Identify the political and legislative steps taken by the federal government to rebuild the South.
- Outline key events that led to the end of the Reconstruction period.
- Identify key dates and the contributions of key people during the Reconstruction period.
- Define the following terms:
- Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
- Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
- Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution
- Freedmen’s Bureau
- Radical Republicans
- Ku Klux Klan
- Jim Crow laws
- Carpetbagger
- Sharecropping
- Tenant Farming
- Compromise of 1877