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 of America
surface form: United States
endTime 1877
followedBy Gilded Age
Jim Crow laws
surface form: 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 Reconstruction era self-linksurface differs
surface form: Congressional Reconstruction

Reconstruction era self-linksurface differs
surface form: Military Reconstruction

Reconstruction era self-linksurface differs
surface form: Presidential Reconstruction

Radical Republicanism
surface form: Radical Reconstruction

Redemption
mainSubject reintegration of seceded Southern states
status of formerly enslaved people
opposedBy Ku Klux Klan
Southern Democrats
surface form: Southern white Democrats

paramilitary white supremacist groups
politicalMovement Radical Republicanism
Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments)
surface form: Redemption movement
significantEvent Civil Rights Act of 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Compromise of 1877
Peonage Act of 1867
surface form: Enforcement Acts

Reconstruction Acts of 1867
surface form: 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
Douglass
surface form: Frederick Douglass

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

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Wade–Davis Bill ideologicalContext Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Radical Reconstruction
Buck and the Preacher setInPeriod Reconstruction era
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Lincoln County War timePeriod Reconstruction era
Mathilda in Roots depictsPeriod Reconstruction era
subject surface form: Mathilda (Roots)
this entity surface form: Reconstruction era United States
Blues People timePeriodCovered Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Reconstruction era in the United States
Song of the South setInTimePeriod Reconstruction era
India Wilkes timePeriod Reconstruction era
Military governor of the Fifth Military District partOf Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Reconstruction military government
Military governor of the Fifth Military District seeAlso Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Military Reconstruction
Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan timePeriodCovered Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Reconstruction era in the United States
Katie Scarlett O'Hara setDuring Reconstruction era
O'Hara setDuring Reconstruction era
subject surface form: Gone with the Wind
40th United States Congress politicalEra Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Radical Reconstruction
Naturalization Act of 1870 timePeriod Reconstruction era
Funding Act of 1870 historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Reconstruction era in the United States
Mary Elizabeth Jenkins historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Reconstruction era United States
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd timePeriod Reconstruction era
African American newspapers historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
Great Boston Fire of 1872 timePeriod Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Reconstruction era United States
sub-treasury in New Orleans appliesToPeriod Reconstruction era
The New National Era historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
Johanna Leonberger settingPeriod Reconstruction era
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Utah Territory historicalEra Reconstruction era
Reese v. United States era Reconstruction era
Life Upon These Shores focusesOn Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Reconstruction era in the United States
Stony the Road mainSubject Reconstruction era
Stony the Road mainSubject Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: post–Civil War United States
Stony the Road focusesOnEvent Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: American Civil War aftermath
Sartoris family historicalEra Reconstruction era
Bennett Place surrender relatedTo Reconstruction era
"Let Us Have Peace" historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
subject surface form: Let Us Have Peace
"Let Us Have Peace" relatedEvent Reconstruction era
subject surface form: Let Us Have Peace
this entity surface form: Reconstruction after the American Civil War
United States v. Ryan historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
Joseph P. Bradley era Reconstruction era
Port Royal Experiment historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
Fifteenth Amendment Enforcement Clause historicalContext Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Reconstruction Era
Emancipation Memorial depicting Abraham Lincoln and a freed slave historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
subject surface form: Emancipation Memorial
Jamaica Committee activeDuring Reconstruction era
Second Enforcement Act temporalContext Reconstruction era
Second Enforcement Act historicalPeriod Reconstruction era
this entity surface form: Post–Civil War United States