WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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there was a great amount of gold discovered during this time.
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there were a few very wealthy families in America who made most of the nation’s money.
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there were lots of people winning the lottery at this time.
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most families were making a lot of money now that factories were hiring.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mark Twain called the late 19th century the “Gilded Age.” By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gilded Age, period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these, The Gilded Age (1873), written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner.
Detailed explanation-3: -When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age, they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name. The term reflected the combination of outward wealth and dazzle with inner corruption and poverty.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Gilded Age was a time of great political corruption and wealth inequality in the late 1800s. It was sparked by the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. There were great advancements in industry and new inventions, such as the light bulb by Thomas Edison, during the Gilded Age.