post-Civil War
Following Southern surrender
Post-Civil War describes the period in American history following the end of the Civil War in 1865, encompassing Reconstruction and the decades that followed.
The term typically modifies nouns relating to this era: post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution, post-Civil War economic development in the South.
While it most commonly refers to the American Civil War, context may indicate other civil wars: post-Civil War Spain under Franco.
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
- railroad expansionGrowth of train infrastructure
- sharecroppingFarm rent in produce
- Freedmen's BureauPost-Civil War relief agency
- industrializationTransition to factory-based economy
forty acres and a mule · tenant farming · cotton economy · 13th Amendment · Abolitionism · Jim Crow laws · poll taxes · literacy tests · separate but equal · racial tensions · monopolies · segregation · migration patterns · labor unions · Ku Klux Klan · night riders · banking reforms · education reform
- Reconstruction Southsharecropping, tenant farming, freedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, carpetbaggers
- Spanish ErasGolden Age, Siglo de Oro, Silver Age, medieval, colonial
- Maine Historystatehood, Augusta, Portland, Bangor, Brunswick
post-Civil Warantebellum
Before a war's start
pre-war · Old South · plantation era · colonial era · colonial period
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