The next annual Joint Undersea Warfare Technology Spring Conference will be held April 24-26, 2017 at the Admiral Kidd Conference Center at Naval Base Pt.
Radical Republicans in Congress, led by Stevens and Sumner opened the way to suffrage for male freedmen. They were generally in control, although they had to compromise with the moderate Republicans (the Democrats in Congress had almost no power). Historians generally refer to this period as Radical Reconstruction.
Full Definition of RECONSTRUCTION. 1. a: the action of reconstructing: the state of being reconstructed b often capitalized: the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states in the Union after the American Civil War. 2. : something reconstructed. See reconstruction defined for English-language learners.