This Reconstruction Unit can be downloaded in its entirety, or as individual lessons. The slides are filled with visuals, great textual information, loads of primary sources, maps, activities, mini-DBQs, timelines and much much more. The content is detailed below:
 
Part 1 (14 slides) - Freedom Amendments, including: the amendments on a timeline, the original text of the amendments, freedmen's bureau, Johnson's presidency, Johnson's impeachment, Johnson's legacy
 
Part 2 (12 slides) - The Ku Klux Klan, including: Three separate KKK movements on a timeline, background, development and activity of the KKK, decline of the KKK, pictures, primary source of KKK recruitment leaflet with writing prompts for analysis
 
Part 3 (15 slides) - The Black Codes, including: Black Codes on a timeline, background on the slave codes compared to the Black Codes, the purpose of the Black Codes, various examples of the Black Codes from 1865 Mississippi, a graphic organizer for students to summarize each sample section of the code
 
Part 4 (13 slides) - The Jim Crow Era, including: Jim Crow Era on a timeline, introduction to Jim Crow Laws, examples of public segregation, Plessy v Ferguson case, Booker T. Washington with mini-biography and relevant quotation, W.E.B. DuBois, Hiram Revels, 'separate but equal'
 
Part 5 (14 slides) - The Great Migration, including: Great Migration on a timeline, mapping the great migration, sharecropping in the south (blacks and whites), sharecropping on a map, movement to the North, Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Apollo Theater