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Excerpt from Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America
The term reconstruction, in American politics, applies more aptly to the revolted states than it does to the federal Union; for the mutilated form of the Union was restored by the mere ascendancy of the northern arms, but it was not until after this had occurred that the eleven states were reconstructed. The period during which the process of renewal was taking place is called, in popular speech, the Recon struction Period, and it refers, somewhat indefinitely, to the time occupied by the single term of President Johnson and the succeeding two terms of President Grant, the presidential terms during which the ancient governments of. The subdued states were finally Subverted, and new ones were erected in their places.
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