[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief history of the official end to slavery in America, the 13th Amendment. A paired passage is part of this module, along with a lower level passage with related...

Discusses what life was like for African Americans who were freed from slavery after the Civil War. Includes questions for students.

This resource provides a timeline of the Reconstruction era in the South.

Describes what the South was like after the Civil War ended. Many places were in ruins and people were desperately poor with many being homeless. Social structures had collapsed now that slaves had been freed. The Reconstruction era...