<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed</li><li>something reconstructed, rebuilt, or reassembled</li><li>U.S. History: the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War</li><li>the period during which this took place, 1865–77</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>