This document outlines the topics covered in Lecture 17 on Congressional Reconstruction, including: I) Early challenges faced in Reconstruction such as the 10% Plan and Black Codes, II) The period of Radical Reconstruction and laws/amendments passed including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and 15th Amendment, III) The undoing of Reconstruction through events and plans such as the rise of sharecropping and the Compromise of 1877 which ended federal control of Reconstruction.