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Oct 29, 2009 · 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 people into the United States.
Jul 16, 2024 · Reconstruction, the period (1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.
Feb 3, 2021 · For a 14‑year period following the Civil War, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation's newly freed Black population.
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- Abraham Lincoln issues the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863) As the Civil War waged on, Lincoln issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction on 8 December 1863 in an effort to entice Confederates to swear allegiance to the Union and put an end to the war.
- Former slaves are promised ‘forty acres and a mule’ (1865) In the autumn of 1864, General William T. Sherman began what is now known as Sherman’s March to the Sea.
- The 13th amendment is approved by Congress (1865) On 31 January 1865, the 13th amendment was approved in Congress, constitutionally abolishing slavery in the Union.
- The Freedmen’s Bureau is founded (1865) The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was founded in March 1865 in an attempt to aid newly freed African Americans in the south.
Reconstruction policies officially end. The South codifies and enforces segregation. Violations of black civil rights will not command national attention again until after World War II.
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The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
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EJI's new report examines the 12 years following the Civil War when violence perpetrated by white leaders against Black communities created an American future of white supremacy and Jim Crow laws—an era from which our nation has yet to recover.
