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  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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