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reconstruction definition

re·con·struc·tion (-struk′s̸hən)

noun

    1. the act of reconstructing
    2. something reconstructed
  2. the process, after the Civil War, of reorganizing the Southern states which had seceded and reestablishing them in the Union
  3. the period of this (1867-77)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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