Reconstruction: freedom, politics, and its collapse

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Explain the different plans and goals of Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional Reconstruction.
Explain the significance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and evaluate how they redefined citizenship, rights, and federal power.
Explain how freedpeople sought to define freedom through family formation, education, labor negotiations, land aspirations, and political participation.

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Explain how white southern resistance, including Black Codes, sharecropping arrangements, political violence, and paramilitary groups, limited Reconstruction.

Evaluate the causes of the end of Reconstruction and explain the political, social, and economic consequences of its collapse for African Americans and the South.

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