1. the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed: "the economic reconstruction of Russia"
▪ a thing that has been rebuilt after being damaged or destroyed: "comparison between the original and the reconstruction"
▪ an impression, model, or re-enactment of a past event formed from the available evidence: "a reconstruction of the accident would be staged to try to discover the cause of the tragedy"
▪ the period 1865–77 following the Civil War, during which the states of the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government and social legislation, including the granting of new rights to African-Americans, was introduced.
