2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reconstruction \Re`con*struc"tion\ (-str?k"sh?n), n.
1. The act of constructing again the state of being
reconstructed.
2. (U.S. Politics) The act or process of reorganizing the
governments of the States which had passed ordinances of
secession, and of re["e]stablishing their constitutional
relations to the national government, after the close of
the Civil War.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
Reconstruction
n 1: the period after the United States Civil War when the
southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into
the Union; 1865-1877 [syn: {Reconstruction}]
2: the activity of constructing something again
3: an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of
evidence
4: recall via mental reconstruction
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