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Reconstruction is the act or process of rebuilding something, or is a recreation of past events, or the period after the Civil War when the southern states were reorganized into the U.S.

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An example of reconstruction is when the economy of a country is rebuilt or restored after the war.
An example of reconstruction is a piecing together of the causes of an accident using available evidence.
An example of reconstruction is the period from 1865-1877 when the southern states rejoined the union and African Americans were given more civil rights.

See reconstruction in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

1. the act of reconstructing
2. 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)

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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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