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| When was the American Civil War? |
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| Who are the two Civil War Presidents? |
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| Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson |
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| When is the Period of Reconstruction? |
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| 1865 - 1877 (End of the Civil War to the election of R. B. Hayes) |
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| Who was the President during Reconstruction |
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| Big scandal during the Grant Administration involving a French Company over-charging the US government? |
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| What does the phrase "gilded age" mean |
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| 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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