reconstruction

  1. Proper noun.  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.
  2. Noun.  A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
  3. Noun.  The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
  4. Noun.  An attempt to understand in detail how certain events took place or happened.

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