Civil War & Reconstruction
Civil War
Third Federal (Union) Occupation and Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Reconstruction refers to post-Civil War U.S. history from 1863 to 1877; it also refers to the transformation of the American South and its states during that same period. Directed by the Federal government with the aims of restoring the formerly seceded states to the Union, reconstructing and reconciling American society, and absorbing some four million freedmen into the national economic mainstream.
