<Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> United States, Southern United States </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Also known as </Th> <Td> Reconstruction; Radical Reconstruction </Td> </Tr> <P> The term Reconstruction Era, in the context of the history of the United States, has two senses: the first covers the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the American Civil War (1861 to 1865); the second sense focuses on the attempted transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Congress, with the reconstruction of state and society . With the three Reconstruction Amendments, the era saw the first amendments to the U.S. Constitution in decades . </P> <P> Three visions of Civil War memory appeared during Reconstruction: the reconciliationist vision, which was rooted in coping with the death and devastation the war had brought; the white supremacist vision, which included terror and violence; and the emancipationist vision, which sought full freedom, citizenship and Constitutional equality for African Americans . </P>

When did reconstruction end after the civil war