WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Progressive Era
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Civil Rights Movement
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Cold War
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Gilded Age
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -This system of political control-known as “bossism"-emerged particularly in the Gilded Age. A single powerful figure (the boss) was at the center and was bound together to a complex organization of lesser figures (the political machine) by reciprocity in promoting financial and social self-interest.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the main goal of political machines during the Gilded Age? The main goal of political machines at that time was to control local government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age? Industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power.