This period is generally viewed to have been ended by a Compromise passed in the first year of the Hayes administration.
This period is generally viewed to have been ended by a Compromise passed in the first year of the Hayes administration. Its early course was determined by the pocket veto of the Wade-Davis bill, and Andrew Johnson's support for the namesake Acts of 1867 alienated both Radical Republicans and Southerners. For ten points, name the period of American history, lasting from the end of the Civil War until about 1877, during which the 14th and 15th Amendments were passed and the United States attempted to rebuild and readmit the former Confederate States.
This period is generally viewed to have been ended by a Compromise passed in the first year of the Hayes administration.
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