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  1. Reconstruction and reaction

    Radical Reconstruction, which began two years after the Civil War in 1867 and lasted until 1877. In this ... American activist of the time. The Civil War was the result of a struggle for control over the newly ... secession. War followed inevitably, the Northern victory clearing the way for US industrial growth, crucial ...

  2. Epic novel of the French Revolution

    Robespierre, three famed leaders of the French Revolution who did go on to rule the nation in the five ... the bourgeoisie and the poor, under the threat of counter-revolution and war, advanced the Revolution, ... capitalists' liberty and profits for the war and the republic. The Jacobins under Robespierre did just this ...