In Munich and Bavaria, Fasching (as Carnival is called) begins on Epiphany (January 6), but in Cologne and the Rhineland it begins on November 11 at 11:11 AM. In France, it is celebrated only on the day before Ash Wednesday (thus Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday).
Reconstruction refers to the period, generally dated from 1865 to 1877, during which the nationâs laws and Constitution were rewritten to guarantee the basic rights of the former slaves, and biracial governments came to power throughout the defeated Confederacy.
reconstruction one of the most turbulent and controversial eras in american history began during the civil war and ended in 1877 it witnessed america s first experiment in interracial democracy just as the fate of slavery was central to the meaning of the civil war so the divisive politics of reconstruction turned on the status the former slaves would assume in the reunited nation