reconstruction
noun
- the act of reconstructing
- something reconstructed
- the process, after the Civil War, of reorganizing the Southern states which had seceded and reestablishing them in the Union
- the period of this (1867-77)
See reconstruction in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(rēˌkən-strŭkˈshən)
noun- The act or result of reconstructing.
- Reconstruction The period (1865-1877) during which the states that had seceded to the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government before being readmitted to the Union.
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