reconstruction

n. process of rebuilding, process of erecting again; recreation, process of remaking

n. (U.S. History) post-Civil War process of reaccepting of Confederate states into the Union; (1865-1877) period during which Confederate states were reaccepted into the Union

Reconstruction was the attempt from 1863 to 1877 in U.S. history to resolve the issues of the American Civil War, when both the Confederacy and slavery were destroyed. Reconstruction addressed the return to the Union of the secessionist Southern states, the status of the leaders of the Confederacy, and the Constitutional and legal status of the Negro Freedmen. Violent controversy erupted over how to tackle those issues, and by the late 1870s Reconstruction had failed to equally integrate the Freedmen into the legal, political, economic and social system. "Reconstruction" is also the common name for the entire history of the era 1865 to 1877.
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Noun
1. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877
(synonym) Reconstruction Period
(hypernym) historic period, age

Noun
1. the activity of constructing something again
(hypernym) repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation
(hyponym) makeover
(derivation) rebuild, reconstruct
2. an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence
(hypernym) interpretation
3. recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall
(synonym) reconstructive memory
(hypernym) recall, recollection, reminiscence
(derivation) reconstruct, construct, retrace

n. reconstruction, redevelopment

(n.)
The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
  

(n.)
The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.