Reconstruction

1865–1877

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  • Title Reconstruction
  • Coverage 1865–1877
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  • Keywords defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, probationary period of federal control, In South Carolina, Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877, abolition of slavery, southern leaders passed Black Codes, invalidated by the state’s military governor, who saw them as reestablishing slavery in everything but name, Reconstruction Acts, one-party domination, President Ulysses S. Grant, “Taxpayers’ Conventions,” Daniel H. Chamberlain, By the 1890s there were almost no black or Republican officeholders in the state, a condition that continued for more than half a century
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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  • Access Date April 23, 2024
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  • Date of Last Update August 23, 2022
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