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Meaning:

Noun:

  • An attempt to understand in detail how certain events took place or happened.
  • A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
  • The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

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Proper noun:

  • A period of the history of the United States from 1863 to 1877, during which the nation resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex slaves) after the U.S. Civil War.

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