reconstruction

• the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
• the activity of constructing something again
• an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence
• recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall
• The act of constructing again
• The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War

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