Reconstruction era

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United States history period historical period

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.

Aliases (18)

Reconstruction Era ×3
Reconstruction era United States ×3
Reconstruction ×2
Reconstruction era in the United States ×2
African American officeholding during Reconstruction ×1
Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War) ×1
Civil War and Reconstruction Amendment ×1
Congressional Reconstruction ×1
Military Reconstruction ×1
Post-Reconstruction United States ×1
Presidential Reconstruction ×1
Reconstruction era United States politics ×1
Reconstruction era in Texas ×1
Reconstruction era of the United States ×1
Reconstruction governments ×1
Reconstruction in the American South ×1
Reconstruction policy ×1
Reconstruction-era America ×1

Statements (63)

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 →
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 → Military Reconstruction → Presidential Reconstruction → Radical Reconstruction → Redemption →
mainSubject	reintegration of seceded Southern states → status of formerly enslaved people →
opposedBy	Ku Klux Klan → Southern white 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 → 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 → Hiram Revels → Rutherford B. Hayes → Thaddeus Stevens → Ulysses S. Grant →
startTime	1865 →

Referenced by (65)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alta California ("Reconstruction era United States") → Black Codes → Central Pacific Railroad historic route → Civil Rights Act of 1866 ("Reconstruction Era") → Edman Spangler → First Enforcement Act → Modoc War ("Reconstruction era United States") → Tenure of Office Act → Thirteenth Amendment → United States–Native American wars → Wilmington insurrection of 1898 ("Post-Reconstruction United States") →	historicalPeriod
Blanche K. Bruce ("African American officeholding during Reconstruction") → Colfax massacre → Constitution of 1866 (Texas) → Edmund G. Ross ("Reconstruction era United States politics") → Hiram Revels → John Bingham ("Reconstruction era of the United States") → Wormley Agreement →	partOf
American Publishing Company → Electoral Commission of 1877 → Enforcement Acts → Great Fire of Portland 1866 → Sethe →	timePeriod
1876 United States presidential election → Blanche K. Bruce → impeachment of Andrew Johnson →	era
Reconstruction era ("Presidential Reconstruction") → Reconstruction era ("Congressional Reconstruction") → Reconstruction era ("Military Reconstruction") →	hasPart
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church ("Reconstruction era United States") → Scarlett O'Hara → Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment ("Reconstruction Era") →	historicalContext
Julia Dent Grant → Snap the Whip ("Reconstruction-era America") →	associatedWith
Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments) → Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments) ("Reconstruction governments") →	follows
Ashley Wilkes → The Birth of a Nation →	setDuring
White League →	activeDuringPeriod
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution →	adoptedDuring
Radical Republicanism →	appliesToPeriod
Thirteenth Amendment ("Civil War and Reconstruction Amendment") →	constitutionalCategory
Harper's Weekly →	coveredEvent
Civil Rights Act of 1875 →	enactedIn
Civil Rights Act of 1870 →	enactedInContextOf
John Bingham ("Reconstruction policy") →	fieldOfWork
Constitutional Convention of 1875 (Texas) ("Reconstruction era in Texas") →	followed
American Civil War →	followedBy
Hamburg massacre →	hasContext
Compromise of 1877 ("Reconstruction Era") →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Palmetto Leaves ("Reconstruction in the American South") →	hasTheme
American Woman Suffrage Association →	historicalEra
Black Belt (U.S. region) →	historicalPeriodOfImportance
American South (19th and early 20th centuries) ("Black Codes (immediately after the Civil War)") →	legalRegime
41st United States Congress →	locatedInTimePeriod
impeachment of Andrew Johnson →	mainSubject
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today →	periodDepicted
Gilded Age →	precededBy
Electoral Commission of 1877 ("Reconstruction era in the United States") →	relatedTo
Reconstruction Amendments ("Reconstruction") →	relatedToEvent
American Civil War →	result
American South (19th and early 20th centuries) ("Reconstruction") →	shapedByEvent
African American studies ("Reconstruction era in the United States") →	studies
Redeemer movement →	temporalContext
Wild West →	timePeriodContext