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Course: Constitution 101 Sandbox > Unit 5
Lesson 5: 7.5: Reconstruction: An Overview- What was Reconstruction?
- What is the constitutional legacy of Reconstruction?
- What powers did the Reconstruction Amendments grant to the national government?
- Info Brief: Overview of Reconstruction
- Celebrating Our Nation’s Second Founding
- Women of Reconstruction: Susie King Taylor, Harriet Jacobs, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- The Black Codes: A Clip From FOURTEEN
- Primary Source: Black Codes (1865)
- What divided President Johnson and the Republican Congress at the height of Reconstruction?
- Primary Source: Charles Sumner, One Man Power vs. Congress (1866)
- Primary Source: The Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (1866)
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The Black Codes: A Clip From FOURTEEN
Google ClassroomIn this clip from FOURTEEN performers share sections of the Black Codes from the Reconstruction era and the response of African Americans to the rise of these laws.
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