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Reconstruction
Pronunciation : Re`con*struc"tion (-strk"shn)
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
2. (U.S. Politics)
Defn: The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of re?stablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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