The era of Reconstruction was characterized by the attempt to restore the Union after the Civil War. ... After the Union won the Civil War in 1865, it was their job to begin the reconstruction of the Unites States. The Reconstruction Era started at the end of the Civil War in 1865 and ended in1877 (Reconstruction). ... Between 1865 and 1877 blacks were freed from slavery and granted political equality. The whites regained control of Southern government, but the nation had shifted from the pre-war South to the industrial economy of the North. ...

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