Reconstruction Definition

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noun
reconstructions
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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reconstruction
Plural:
reconstructions

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