AP U.S. History / Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
5.10 Reconstruction
Notes
Rebuilding and reunifying the nation (1865–1877).
- Fourteenth Amendment (citizenship, equal protection) and Fifteenth Amendment (Black men's right to vote).
- Freedmen's Bureau; Radical Republicans; President Andrew Johnson's impeachment (1868).
- Black men voted and held office.
Practice
The Fourteenth Amendment:
1868.
The Freedmen's Bureau:
Federal aid agency.
Andrew Johnson was impeached mainly over:
Not removed.
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