Definition of Reconstruction period

1. Noun. The period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877.

Exact synonyms: Reconstruction
Generic synonyms: Age, Historic Period

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Reconquista
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Literary usage of Reconstruction period

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington (1902)
"During the whole of the reconstruction period two ideas were constantly agitating the minds of the coloured people, or, at least, the minds of a large part ..."

2. History of American Journalism by James Melvin Lee (1917)
"CHAPTER XVII reconstruction period 1865—1880 THE period after the War of the States was one of reconstruction, not only in the world of politics, ..."

3. Richard Henry Dana: A Biography by Charles Francis Adams (1890)
"THE reconstruction period.—THE ESSEX PROTEST. As the record of Mr. Dana's life is of interest only as told by himself, ..."

4. Lynch-Law: An Investigation Into the History of Lynching in the United States by James Elbert Cutler (1905)
"... CHAPTER V THE reconstruction period A CIVIL war is worse in many respects than a foreign war. When the members of a society are forced to settle any ..."

5. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1899)
"1866. ,HE reconstruction period of our government was no less trying a time than the four years of warfare which preceded it. The Union had been preserved ..."

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