America from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the 20th century. The nation rebuilt the shattered South, wrote equality into the Constitution, and was remade by railroads, factories and a flood of immigration into the world’s leading industrial power.
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The rebuilding of the nation after the Civil War, and its transformation into an industrial giant.
print — ReconstructionA chronology of the rebuilding of the South and the constitutional revolution of 1865–1877.
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print — industryHow railroads, steel and oil remade America into the world’s great industrial power.
Enter the Gilded Age →A Nation Transformed
How Americans lived and worked as the country industrialized.
photo — city lifeThe crowded cities, the ranchers and homesteaders, and everyday life in the Gilded Age.
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print — railroadsRailroads, the great corporations, farming and the immigrant workforce that built modern America.
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