Rebuilding the Nation

Preparing for Reunion Main Idea: President Lincoln and Congress did not agree about how to bring the Union back together.

The Freedmen’s Bureau Main Idea: The Freedmen’s Bureau provided education and economic help to freed slaves and poor whites.

Lincoln Is Murdered

Main Idea: Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ended the chance of a lenient Reconstruction.

Progress Monitoring Transparency

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Opposing Plans for ReconstructionIMAGE LIBRARY

The Ku Klux KlanTRANSPARENCY

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Sharecropping Cycle of Poverty IMAGE LIBRARY

Farms Rented for Shares of Products, 1880 IMAGE LIBRARY

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Cotton Production, 1860–1870IMAGE LIBRARY