- the act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed: the gigantic task of reconstruction after a fire.
- something reconstructed, rebuilt, or reassembled: a reconstruction of the sequence of events leading to his death; accurate reconstructions of ancient Greek buildings.
- (initial capital letter)U.S. History.
- the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War.
- the period during which this took place, 1865–77.
- the period after the Civil War when the South was reorganized and reintegrated into the Union (1865–77)
