Reconstruction

In the history of the United States, "Reconstruction" was the period after the American Civil War when the southern states of the breakaway Confederate States of America|Confederacy were reintegrated into the United States of America.

References

• This article incorporates public domain text from Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. With a review of the events which led to the political revolution of 1860, by James Blaine.
• {{Book reference | Author=Eric Foner | Title=Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863- 1877 | Publisher=HarperCollins | Year=1988 | ID=ISBN 0060937165}}
• {{Book reference | Author= Eric Foner | Title=Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction | Publisher=Louisiana State University Press | Year=1996 | ID=ISBN 0807120820}}