Becuase they thought it should be called the American war
<span>golden age</span>Word OriginSee more synonyms on Thesaurus.com <span>noun <span>the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc.<span><span>Classical Mythology. </span>the first and best of the four ages of humankind; an era of peace and innocence that finally yielded to the silver age.</span><span><span><span>(usually initial capital letters)</span> </span>a period in Latin literature, 70 b.c. to a.d. 14, in which Cicero, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, and others wrote; the first phase of classical Latin.<span>Compare <span>silver age(def 2)</span>.</span></span></span></span>
