Reconstruction Amendments Photo Gallery | History In A Nutshell

  • The 13th Amendment
  • The 14th Amendment
  • The 15th Amendment
  • The Founding Fathers
  • Three Fifths Compromise
  • Eli Whitney – Inventor of the “Cotton Gin”
  • Diagram of a “Cotton Gin”
  • Pros and Cons of Slavery
  • Cover of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” – Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Missouri Compromise Map
  • Missouri Compromise Map – Including 36° 30´ latitude line
  • Voting in Kickapoo Illustration
  • Bleeding Kansas
  • Dred Scott vs. Sandford
  • John Brown – Mastermind behind the infamous Raid on Harper’s Ferry
  • Raid on Harper’s Ferry Illustration
  • Reactions to John Brown’s Death
  • President Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln Signing the Emancipation Proclamation
  • Border Slave States Unaffected By Emancipation Proclamation Map
  • Robert E. Lee’s Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  • Passing of the 13th Amendment
  • President Andrew Johnson
  • African Americans in Congress
  • Andrew Johnson Issuing Blanket Pardons to Former Confederates
  • Southerners Taking Oath of Allegiance
  • South Carolina “Radical Republicans”
  • Freedmen’s Bureau Illustration
  • General William Tecumseh Sherman
  • 40 Acres and a Mule
  • Reconstruction Military Districts Map
  • Andrew Johnson’s Infamous Contempt of “Freedmen” Cartoon
  • President Ulysses S. Grant
  • Reconstruction Political Cartoon
  • KKK/White League Political Cartoon
  • Panic of 1873 Illustration
  • Compromise of 1877 Illustration
  • An Example of Jim Crow/Segregation in the U.S.
  • President Lyndon Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964