State & history
After the Civil War, the period in which the Southern states were brought back into the Union and formerly enslaved people gained new rights is called what?
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A The Gilded Age
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✕ The Progressive Era Your answer
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C The Great Migration
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✓ Reconstruction
Not quite.
Reconstruction (1865-1877) added the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. They ended slavery, promised equal protection and protected voting rights regardless of race.
Source: National Archives; Library of Congress: Reconstruction