Modern US History (Reconstruction–Today)

Subject: Social Studies  ·  Grade level: 11th

The big arcs: industrialization, world wars, civil rights, and the modern era. US history after 1865 is the story of a country becoming an industrial power, s

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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