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Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877

Reconstruction

Explain how Reconstruction policy, from Johnson's plan to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, redefined citizenship and federal power from 1865 to 1877.

Topic 5.10 · 16 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Two plans for the defeated South, 1863-1866
  2. 02Congress takes control, 1866-1870
  3. 03A new national citizenship, and who it left out
  4. 04Reconstruction governments in the South
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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