1. Synthesizing Reconstruction
Timeline Project

2. Directions
On your 11 x 17 paper, please create a timeline from with the following components for EACH topic:
Name of the topic and the year
Brief description
Colorful, visual representation

3. Topics New State Constitutions (1865-1877)
Radical Reconstruction ( s)
Black Codes (1866)
Sharecropping (1860s-1940s)
Freedmen’s Bureau ( )
Ku Klux Klan (1865-Today)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Military Reconstruction Act (1867)
Fourteenth Amendment (1868)
Johnson’s Impeachment (1868)
Fifteenth Amendment (1870)
African-American Officeholders (1870s-1880s)
Enforcement Acts ( )
Poll Tax (1870s-1966)
Amnesty Act 1872
Jim Crow Laws ( )
Compromise of 1877
Literacy Tests (1890s-1965)
Plessy v. Fergusson (1896)