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Reconstruction: Success or Failure? Given a the text in Chapter 15 and a list of Reconstruction's goals and achievements, write a position statement on whether or not Reconstruction succeeded in it's goals, identifying specific examples to support this statement. By Excel23 (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia C
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  1. 1. Reconstruction: Success or Failure? Given a the text in Chapter 15 and a list of Reconstruction's goals and achievements, write a position statement on whether or not Reconstruction succeeded in it's goals, identifying specific examples to support this statement. By Excel23 (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
  2. 2. What Were the Goals of Reconstruction? 1. Reunite the States 2. Protect and Promote the Civil Rights of freed slaves
  3. 3. Reconstruction and Civil Rights Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction Radical Republicans and Congressional Reconstruction Victories Education, Freedmans Bureau Suffrage and Elected Officials Conservative Reaction Rise of the KKK The End of Reconstruction (1877) Retreat from Civil Rights and the South
  4. 4. Reconstruction as Reunion Southern States and the Union Peace and Clemency Counterfactuals No Second Civil War Mercy for Confederate officials Reconstruction and Southern Memory Gone with the Wind "Richmond Virginia damage2" by Russell, Andrew J., photographer. - Library of Congress. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richmond_Virginia_ damage2.jpg#/media/File:Richmond_Virginia_damage2.jpg
  5. 5. So what? Considered politically? Considered socially? Legacy for Civil Rights 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment