This 14-slide PowerPoint includes 3 embedded videos, animation, transitions, vocabulary, teacher notes, and test questions. This lesson on the Reconstruction Era includes legislative acts such as the Homestead Act, The Dawes Act, the Morrill Act, the Reconstruction Act of 1867. It covers the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and 17th President, Andrew Johnson, and 18th President, Ulysses S. Grant. You will get a break when you show the three short videos that are included in this PowerPoint.