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Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States and the first to be impeached
Charles Sumner
Abolitionist Senator Beaten on the Senate Floor, 1811–1874
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th President of the United States, whose disputed election ended Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
Radical Republican Congressman and Architect of Reconstruction
Ulysses S. Grant
Commanding general of the Union Army and 18th President of the United States
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Appomattox Court House
The Virginia village where the Civil War effectively ended, April 9, 1865
Richmond
Capital of the Confederacy and center of Virginia's long reckoning with its past
South Carolina
Where the Civil War began and where nullification was born
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Reconstruction
The unfinished project of rebuilding the South and remaking American citizenship, 1865–1877
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Assassination of Lincoln
The murder of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, April 1865
Election of 1876
The disputed election that ended Reconstruction and handed the White House to Hayes
Freedmen's Bureau
The federal agency that tried — and was not allowed — to secure Black Americans' freedom
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
The first presidential impeachment — and a referendum on who would control Reconstruction
Panic of 1873
The railroad collapse that triggered the Long Depression and ended Reconstruction
Documents
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
The first federal law to define American citizenship and guarantee equal rights regardless of race
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Reconstruction's promise of equal public life — struck down 89 years before it could be replaced
Fifteenth Amendment
The 1870 amendment that prohibited denying the vote on the basis of race
Fourteenth Amendment
The 1868 amendment that defined citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law
Concepts
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Jim Crow Laws
The system of racial segregation that governed the South from Reconstruction to the 1960s
Segregation
The Legal and Social System That Enforced Racial Separation Across American Life
The Lost Cause
The Confederate mythology that rewrote the Civil War — and shaped a century of American race relations
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