Modern US History (Reconstruction–Today)

Subject: Social Studies  ·  Grade level: 11th

Trace the throughlines from 1865 to now: industry, war, rights, and reform.

In this lesson

• Reconstruction (1865–1877)
• Industrial age & Progressive Era
• Two world wars & the Depression
• Civil Rights & the modern era

Key terms

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery (1865).

14th Amendment

Citizenship and equal protection (1868).

15th Amendment

Voting rights regardless of race (1870).

Jim Crow

Southern laws that enforced racial segregation after Reconstruction.

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