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  1. In US history, the period 1865-77 after the
  2. Civil War during which the nation was
  3. reunited under the federal government after
  4. the defeat of the Southern Confederacy. The
  5. emancipated slaves were assisted in finding
  6. work, shelter, and lost relatives through
  7. federal agencies. Amendments to the US
  8. constitution, and to southern state
  9. constitutions, conferred equal civil and
  10. political rights on blacks, though many
  11. southern states, opposed to these radical
  12. Republican measures, still practiced
  13. discrimination and segregation.
  14. Reconstruction paved the way for the
  15. modernization of the South, but failed to
  16. ensure racial equality, and the former slaves
  17. remained, in most cases, landless labourers.
  18.