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Reconstruction Acts, U.S. legislation enacted in 1867–68 that outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War. The bills were largely written by the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress. Learn more about the acts’ requirements.
Previous Section The Freedmen; Next Section The Travails of Reconstruction; Reconstruction and Rights Radical Members of the First Legislature After the War, South Carolina, ca. 1876.. When the Civil War ended, leaders turned to the question of how to reconstruct the nation.
Reconstruction Timeline. Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation ...
Our newest report, Reconstruction in America, documents nearly 2,000 additional lynchings between 1865 and 1876, raising the total number of documented lynchings to nearly 6,500. Thousands more were attacked, sexually assaulted, and terrorized by white mobs and individuals who were shielded from arrest and prosecution.
The twelve years that composed the post-war Reconstruction era (1865-77) witnessed a seismic shift in the meaning and makeup of our democracy, with millions of former slaves and free black people ...
Reconstruction was the... At the end of the Civil War, the United States was still a very divided place. 700,000 people had died in a bitter fight over slavery.
12 de ene. de 2004 · Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, Reconstruction tracks the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans — Southern and Northern, white and black — as they struggle to shape new ...
