postbellum

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• As McLoughlin well describes, the postbellum Cherokee Nation (which had just come through entanglement in the U.S. Civil War and a kind of Cherokee civil war) emerged onto the shifting sands of the political balance of power.

  Academic text (2001)

• He also contributed to the analysis of elements of conservative thought and cultural expression in the postbellum South.

  Academic text (2014)

• The postbellum systems of labor relations and race relations were shaped by the economic and political alternatives.

  Academic text (1993)

• The symbolic distinction of Cajuns reflected their new position in the social structure of postbellum Louisiana.

  Academic text (1998)

• Beyond the mere physical effects of postbellum life, many residents undoubtedly experienced a period of psychological shock and emotional readjustment.

  Academic text (2008)

• Once settled in postbellum Atlanta, the majority of black residents labored in poorly paid and unskilled, often dangerous jobs.

  Blog text (22)

• The creation of postbellum black churches throughout the South stands as one of the hallmark achievements of Reconstruction and formed a lasting foundation for the region's African-American population.

  Academic text (2008)

• In the expanding consumer culture of postbellum America, Christmas gifts and goods proliferated at a bewildering clip, so much so that by the turn of the century, the commercial promotion of Christmas was pervasive.

  Academic text (1992)

• Atlanta was home to the remnants of a community of postbellum northern carpetbaggers and sects of well-intentioned northern social reformers working in poor white and black neighborhoods.

  Blog text (22)

• The economic landscape of the South underwent significant changes during the postbellum period.

Synonyms

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postwar

vspostbellum

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Relating to the time just after a war, especially a big one

is specific to the period after the American Civil War, not to wars generally

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