Combining film clips with the primary sources provides students with opportunities to develop media and text analysis. Gone were the brutalities and indignities of slave life the whippings and sexual assaults the selling and forcible relocation of family members the denial of education wages legal marriage homeownership and more. Reconstruction Era Reconstruction Era Reconstruction Virginia Episode One of the PBS series Reconstruction. . Reconstruction Act of 1867. Reconstruction 1865-1877 the turbulent era following the Civil War was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves. It was a time before antiseptics and a time when there was no attempt to maintain sterility during surgery. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Additionally many men had left for a number of years to fight for the Confederacy and many plantations and farms...