WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Gilded Age
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Golden Age
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Progressive Era
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The Great Migration
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Gilded Age was named so by Mark Twain who saw the economic growth of America during the late 19th and early 20th century as misleading. He called it the Gilded Age because he claimed that despite all the economic progress America was making, the societal structure underneath it was crumbling and suffering.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mark Twain collaborated with Charles Dudley Warner to write The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today because they wanted to expose the graft, materialism, and corruption which controlled American public life at that time.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mark Twain, who coined the moniker “The Gilded Age” in his 1873 novel of the same name, used it to describe the era’s patina of splendor-gilded, after all, is not gold-and the shaky foundations undergirding industrialists’ vast accumulation of wealth.