Reconstruction era

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The Reconstruction era was the period following the American Civil War when the United States attempted to reintegrate the seceded Southern states and redefine the legal and social status of formerly enslaved people.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf United States history period
historical period
aim protect civil rights of freedpeople
rebuild Southern economy
redefine federal-state relations
restore seceded states to the Union
appliesToJurisdiction Southern United States
former Confederate states
country United States
endTime 1877
followedBy Gilded Age
Jim Crow era
linked to: Jim Crow laws
follows American Civil War
hasCause defeat of the Confederacy
emancipation of enslaved people
secession of Southern states
hasEffect abolition of slavery in the United States
development of Jim Crow foundations
emergence of Black officeholders in the South
eventual withdrawal of federal troops from the South
expansion of public education in the South
extension of voting rights to Black men
federal occupation of Southern states
granting of citizenship to formerly enslaved people
intensification of racial violence in the South
readmission of Confederate states to the Union
rise of sharecropping system
strengthening of federal power over states
temporary political participation of African Americans
hasPart Congressional Reconstruction
linked to: Reconstruction era

Military Reconstruction
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Presidential Reconstruction
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Radical Reconstruction
Redemption
mainSubject reintegration of seceded Southern states
status of formerly enslaved people
opposedBy Ku Klux Klan
Southern white Democrats
linked to: Southern Democrats

paramilitary white supremacist groups
politicalMovement Radical Republicanism
Redemption movement
significantEvent Civil Rights Act of 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Compromise of 1877
Enforcement Acts
linked to: Peonage Act of 1867

Military Reconstruction Acts
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau
impeachment of Andrew Johnson
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment
rise of the Ku Klux Klan
significantFigure Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Blanche K. Bruce
Charles Sumner
Frederick Douglass
linked to: Douglass

Hiram Revels
Rutherford B. Hayes
Thaddeus Stevens
Ulysses S. Grant
startTime 1865

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Gilded Age precededBy Reconstruction era
Thirteenth Amendment historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
Thirteenth Amendment constitutionalCategory Civil War and Reconstruction Amendment
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American South (19th and early 20th centuries) shapedByEvent Reconstruction
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American South (19th and early 20th centuries) legalRegime Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)
linked to: Reconstruction era
American Civil War result Reconstruction era
American Civil War followedBy Reconstruction era
Reconstruction era hasPart Presidential Reconstruction
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Reconstruction era hasPart Congressional Reconstruction
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Reconstruction era hasPart Military Reconstruction
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today periodDepicted Reconstruction era
Civil Rights Act of 1866 historicalPeriod Reconstruction Era
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Compromise of 1877 hasHistoricalPeriod Reconstruction Era
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Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments) follows Reconstruction governments
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impeachment of Andrew Johnson mainSubject Reconstruction era
impeachment of Andrew Johnson era Reconstruction era
Radical Republicanism appliesToPeriod Reconstruction era
Civil Rights Act of 1875 enactedIn Reconstruction era
Black Codes historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
Civil Rights Act of 1870 enactedInContextOf Reconstruction era
American Publishing Company timePeriod Reconstruction era
Reconstruction Amendments relatedToEvent Reconstruction
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Hiram Revels partOf Reconstruction era
Blanche K. Bruce era Reconstruction era
Blanche K. Bruce partOf African American officeholding during Reconstruction
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The Birth of a Nation setDuring Reconstruction era
Enforcement Acts timePeriod Reconstruction era
Electoral Commission of 1877 timePeriod Reconstruction era
Electoral Commission of 1877 relatedTo Reconstruction era in the United States
linked to: Reconstruction era
White League activeDuringPeriod Reconstruction era
Hamburg massacre hasContext Reconstruction era
Colfax massacre partOf Reconstruction era
Redeemer movement temporalContext Reconstruction era
1876 United States presidential election era Reconstruction era
Wilmington insurrection of 1898 historicalPeriod Post-Reconstruction United States
linked to: Reconstruction era
Wormley Agreement partOf Reconstruction era
Harper's Weekly coveredEvent Reconstruction era
Snap the Whip associatedWith Reconstruction-era America
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Tenure of Office Act historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
Alta California historicalPeriod Reconstruction era United States
subject linked to: Alta California (newspaper)
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Wild West timePeriodContext Reconstruction era
African American studies studies Reconstruction era in the United States
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Ashley Wilkes setDuring Reconstruction era
Modoc War historicalPeriod Reconstruction era United States
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Scarlett O'Hara historicalContext Reconstruction era