A Reconstruction

<ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.25em; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none;">A thing that has been <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/reconstructed" title="reconstructed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">reconstructed</a> or restored to an earlier state.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none;">The act of restoring something to an earlier state.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: inherit; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none;">A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.</li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: inherit; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none;">Proper noun A period of the history of the <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">United States</a> from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-<a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Confederacy" title="Confederacy" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">Confederate</a> states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex-slaves) after the <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(107, 75, 161); hyphens: none;">American Civil War</a>.</li></ol>