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 * Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction**


 * Theme 1:** Johnson's political blunders and Southern white recalcitrance led to the imposition of congressional military Reconstruction on the South. Reconstruction did address difficult issues of reform and racial justice in the South and achieved some successes, but was ultimately abandoned, leaving a deep legacy of racial and sectional bitterness.
 * Theme 2:** During Reconstruction, the Constitution was strengthened with the Fourteenth (citizenship and equal protection of the laws) and Fifteenth (black voting rights) Amendments, but it was also tested with the conflicts between the President and Congress that culminated in an impeachment process.
 * Theme 3:** Southern resistance to Reconstruction began immediately with the sending of ex-rebels to be seated in Congress and continued with the creation of violently oppressive groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Although forced to make some concessions, Southern "Redeemers" successfully outlasted the Congressional Reconstruction efforts.

[|Practice Test from the Textbook]



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