Reconstruction Definition

rēkən-strŭkshən
reconstructions
noun
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The act of reconstructing.
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Something reconstructed.
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The process, after the Civil War, of reorganizing the Southern states which had seceded and reestablishing them in the Union.
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The period of this (1867-77)
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An attempt to understand in detail how certain events took place or happened.
The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.
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A period of the history of the United States from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex-slaves) after the American Civil War.

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Other Word Forms of Reconstruction

Noun

Singular:
reconstruction
Plural:
reconstructions

Reconstruction Sentence Examples

  • The decisive year of the Reconstruction Period was 1876.

  • The bonded debt was incurred during the Reconstruction Period (1865-1875).

  • There were, however, but few prisons in France adapted for the cellular system, and the process of reconstruction has been slow, In 1898 the old Paris prisons of Grande-Roquette, Saint-Plagie and Mazas were demolished, and to replace them a large prison with 1500 cells was erected at Fresnes-ls-Rungis.

  • Reconstruction was a costly experience here as in other Southern states.

  • Strictly, however, it is contrasted with "perception," and implies the mental reconstruction and combination of sensegiven data.

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