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What Was Life Like?
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A Ferry to Fortune
The Business of Battle
Economic Collapse
Tammany Corruption
Shadows of War
Celebration
Inventive Accounting
Important Events
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The Stock and Bond Exchange
New Yorkers Against Slavery
Civil War Breaks Out
New Yorkers Riot Over Draft
The Panic of 1873
America Goes Dry
Back to the Bar
House of Morgan Bombed!
The Boom
The Crash
War on Crime and Corruption
Reducing the City's Payroll
FDR Goes to Washington & Roosevelt's Bucks
Economic Boom
Cool People From the Past
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Alexander Hamilton
The Robber Barons
Tweed's Machine
Caught by a Cartoonist
Emma Goldman
W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
A Man of the People
An Honest Man
The Root of His Power
The Root of His Vision
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