With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. . .to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Excerpt from
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

 

Reconstruction (Teacher Notes)
Reconstruction
Major Events in Reconstruction
Reconstruction Period 1865-77
Frederick Douglass:
        Life After the 13th Amendment

Ku Klux Klan
Ad for Ku Klux Klan

          Jim Crow Laws

 
Sharecropping in Virginia
A Sharecrop Contract
Reconstruction Sharecropping

        "Born in the Wake of Freedom"
        Born in the Wake of Freedom:
            John Mitchell, Jr. and The Richmond
            Planet
        Issac Jenkins, "A Mob's Victim"
        The Reign of Lawlessness
        "Street Car Law
        "Equal Rights Before the Law"
        "Lynch Law in VA"

Political Cartoon Activity

Historical Facts - Montgomery County
Writing Editorials
Using the Booker T. Washington Video
Will of 1867 - Shawsville, Virginia
Using Census Register, 1879
Letters from the 1880s