What is the name for the period of American history immediately following the Civil War?

Although the Union's Civil War victory resulted in the 13th Amendment and official abolition of slavery, life in the South after the war looked a whole lot like it did before for many of the former slaves. With no money, property or experience other than living and working on a plantation, many freedmen and women had no viable choice but to remain under the control of their former enslavers as sharecroppers—an agricultural system also known as debt slavery.

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