{"slug": "reconstruction-era", "label": "Reconstruction era", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q623429", "qid": "Q623429", "description": "era after American Civil War (1865–1877)", "entries": 11, "years": 6, "span": [1863, 1877], "span_label": ["1863 CE", "1877 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 8}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Reconstruction Era", "Reconstruction era of the United States"], "related": [{"slug": "confederate-states-of-america", "label": "Confederate States of America", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "american-civil-war", "label": "American Civil War", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "georgia-u-s-state", "label": "Georgia (U.S. state)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ulysses-s-grant", "label": "Ulysses S. Grant", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ku-klux-klan", "label": "Ku Klux Klan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "southern-united-states", "label": "Southern United States", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "u-s-state", "label": "U.S. state", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tennessee", "label": "Tennessee", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "texas", "label": "Texas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "virginia", "label": "Virginia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abraham-lincoln", "label": "Abraham Lincoln", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate States of America an official war goal. The signing proclaims the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's four million slaves and immediately frees 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as the Union Army advances. This event marks the start of America's Reconstruction Era.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#January", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – The Ku Klux Klan is formed by six Confederate Army veterans, with support of the Democratic Party, in Pulaski, Tennessee, to resist Reconstruction and intimidate \"carpetbaggers\" and \"scalawags\", as well as to repress the freed slaves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369646452#October–December", "title": "1865 in the United States", "revid": 1369646452, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, to resist Reconstruction and intimidate carpetbaggers and scalawags, as well as to repress the freedpeople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#December", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1866, "year_label": "1866 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368829327#July", "title": "1866", "revid": 1368829327, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26 – Reconstruction Era (United States): Virginia rejoins the Union. This year it adopts a new Constitution, drawn up by John Curtiss Underwood, expanding suffrage to all male citizens over 21, including freedmen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496807#January", "title": "1870", "revid": 1362496807, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 30", "text": "March 30 – Reconstruction: Texas is readmitted to the Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496807#March", "title": "1870", "revid": 1362496807, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Reconstruction Era: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state of America to be readmitted to the Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496807#July", "title": "1870", "revid": 1362496807, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union, and the C.S.A. is dissolved.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358721184#July–September", "title": "1870 in the United States", "revid": 1358721184, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1872, "year_label": "1872 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law, restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371307490#May", "title": "1872", "revid": 1371307490, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1872, "year_label": "1872 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – Reconstruction: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373773863#Events", "title": "1872 in the United States", "revid": 1373773863, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – The Compromise of 1877 forces federal troops to withdraw from the Southern United States. This is the latest date disputed by historians when the Reconstruction Era ended and when the Gilded Age started.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370239819#April", "title": "1877", "revid": 1370239819, "section": "Events › April"}}]}