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    reconstruction
    /ˌriːkənˈstrʌkʃn/

    noun

    • 1. the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed: "the economic reconstruction of Russia"
    • 2. the period 1865–77 following the American Civil War, during which the southern states of the Confederacy were controlled by federal government and social legislation, including the granting of new rights to black people, was introduced.

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  2. RECONSTRUCTION definition: 1. the process of building or creating something again that has been damaged or destroyed: 2. an…. Learn more.

  3. The meaning of RECONSTRUCTION is the action of reconstructing : the act or process of rebuilding, repairing, or restoring something. How to use reconstruction in a sentence.

  4. 2 days ago · Reconstruction, the period (1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.

  5. The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.

  6. Reconstruction definition: the act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed. See examples of RECONSTRUCTION used in a sentence.

  7. Oct 29, 2009 · Reconstruction (1865-1877), the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.

  8. RECONSTRUCTION meaning: 1 : the act or process of building something that was damaged or destroyed again; 2 : the process of putting something (such as a country) back into a good condition.

  9. RECONSTRUCTION definition: 1. the process of creating a description of a past event using all the information that you have…. Learn more.

  10. [countable] an act of acting out events that are known to have happened, in order to try and get more information or better understanding about what happened, especially a crime. Last night police staged a reconstruction of the incident. The police have staged a reconstruction of the events leading up to the murder. Topics TV, radio and news c1.

  11. Oct 10, 2020 · The Reconstruction era was a period of healing and rebuilding in the Southern United States following the American Civil War (1861-1865) that played a critical role in the history of civil rights and racial equality in America.