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Analyze the effects of Reconstruction on the southern states and on the role of the

federal government, including the impact of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth

amendments on opportunities for African Americans.

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1. Reconstruction:  The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States.
2. Thirteenth Amendment: Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

3. Fourteenth Amendment:All people born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and therefore had rights. (Including former slaves) This also contains an equal protection clause that will be used a lot in the future.

4. Fifteenth Amendment: Suffrage (right to vote) to all men regardless of race or ethnicity.

5. Emancipation Proclamation: Issued after the Union victory at Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation had both moral and strategic implications for the on going Civil War.

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P: I see Abraham Lincoln, a dude trying to sew the union together on a ball and
I: Lincoln seeming to try to start the ball moving and this was made during reconstruction so the beginning of reconstruction to the end.
C: In conclusion this cartoon seems to be giving the idea that Lincoln is trying to start reconstruction and to unify the union again.