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reconstruction |
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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