Reconstruction
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- noun
- /ˌriːkənˈstrʌkʃən/
- US
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reconstrucción
- After the Civil War, many policies were implemented during Reconstruction to help the southern states rejoin the Union.
- postwar reconstruction
- Reconstruction era
- Reconstruction period
We became the only city since Reconstruction to be occupied by the military for nine months.
- We became the only city since Reconstruction to be occupied by the military for nine months.
- All the gains since Reconstruction, since the ending of legalized enslavement of people effectively wiped out behind the mortgage crisis.
- These fantastical ideas, called radical Reconstruction by their millions of white opponents, met mass obstruction and popular violent defiance.
- Now, Reconstruction is a rise and fall story.
Examples
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Indeed, King's memories reflect the popular interpretation of Reconstruction still held by many modern-day residents of Bartow County.
Academic text (2008) -
From this foundation, he urged that Reconstruction seek to do more than mend the torn fabric of the Union.
Academic text (2017) -
We became the only city since Reconstruction to be occupied by the military for nine months.
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The time for reconstruction and reconciliation has arrived.
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The amendment proposed is right enough if the reconstruction committee can get any southern state to accept it.
Academic text (2017) -
We are still in the middle of that reconstruction, guiding them away from a slave economy.
Fiction book (1993) -
Try and get into your head that Lincoln's reconstruction program died with him.
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According to bureau reports, most Reconstruction-era African Americans worked on shares or as tenants.
Academic text (2008) -
The fights over local government during Reconstruction are both fundamentally different from today's fights and, simultaneously, reminiscent.
Academic text (2017) -
Reconstruction continues increasingly ahead of schedule, which I attribute to a particularly robust esprit de corps among the troop.
Synonyms
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Period after the Civil War when southern states rejoin the United States and laws protect former slaves
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The period after the Civil War in the United States from 1865 to 1877 when southern states rejoined the Union
Compounds
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Period after the Civil War when southern states rejoin the United States and laws protect former slaves
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The period after the Civil War in the United States from 1865 to 1877 when southern states rejoined the Union
An international organization that gives loans to help developing countries build roads and schools
Surface Forms
Morphology
Reconstruction = reconstruct (semi-transparent) = re + construct + ion
Standard nominalization from the verb 'reconstruct' using '-ion' to indicate the action or process of rebuilding.
Etymology
Reconstruction comes from the parts re- ('again') and construct ('build'), the same idea you see in construction. So, Reconstruction is the time after the Civil War when the South was 'built again' and its governments and laws were put back together.