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JP Morgan was a prominent banker during the Gilded Age or America, which followed the Civil War. The age took place concurrently with the rise of American industrialism 1877 - 1893.

Morgan managed to take advantage of the burgeoning economy to become a "Captain of Industry". These are also sometimes called "Robber Barons" depending on historians' perspective.

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