Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Attempt to transform South after war.
14th and 15th Amendments (1868/1870) give rights of citizenship and voting.
Black American gains in education, economic possibilities, and political participation.
Continual backlash and terrorism by white Southerners to prevent black equality.
1877, Army removed from South, and whites begin to disenfranchise and violently oppress blacks in the South.