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Post Civil War Period
Gilded Age; Industrialization; Growth of Capitalism
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History
Undergraduate 2
10/09/2012

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Term
When was the American Civil War?
Definition
1861-1865
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Who are the two Civil War Presidents?
Definition
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
Term
When is the Period of Reconstruction?
Definition
1865 - 1877 (End of the Civil War to the election of R. B. Hayes)
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Who was the President during Reconstruction
Definition
General Grant
Term
Big scandal during the Grant Administration involving a French Company over-charging the US government?
Definition
Credit Mobilier
Term
What does the phrase "gilded age" mean
Definition
It refers to the period of the great industrial growth in America. Coined by Mark Twain who thought that on the surface of society it was shiney but below the surface was not so shiney.
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