- Timeline of Reconstruction: 1865-1877
Presents notable events and people from the period.
chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/chron.html
- Reconstruction
Twelve-part account of Reconstruction from the Southern point of view. Excerpted from the 1899 "Confederate Military History."
www.civilwarhome.com/reconstruction.htm
- Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Text of Abraham Lincoln's December, 1863, proclamation laying out his plan for restoring the Union after the war.
www.historyplace.com/lincoln/proc-4.htm
- Fourteenth Amendment@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Amendments/Fourteenth_Amendment
- Thirteenth Amendment@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Amendments/Thirteenth_Amendment
- Reconstruction and Rights
Article and documents related to the right to vote and how voting actually occurred in Southern states after the Civil War. From the Library of Congress.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/recontwo/recontwo.h...
- Thaddeus Stevens: Speech of December 18, 1865
Reflects the opinion of Stevens and other Radical Republicans that Southerners had given up all rights to govern themselves.
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1851-1875/reconstruction/steven.htm
- Fifteenth Amendment@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Amendments/Fifteenth_Amendment
- America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War
Traces the course of one of the most turbulent and controversial eras in American history from its beginnings during the Civil War to its end in 1877.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
- Reconstruction of North Georgia, The
Describes hardships endured by Georgians as a result of the war, recovery efforts, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and segregation.
www.ngeorgia.com/history/reconstruction.html
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