Reconstruction Acts,: Meaning and Definition of

Reconstruc'tion Acts"

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  1. the acts of Congress during the period from 1865 to 1877 providing for the reorganization of the former Confederate states and setting forth the process by which they were to be restored to representation in Congress, esp. the acts passed in 1867 and 1868.
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