WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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America’s Golden Age
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Electricity was invented
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While America looked great on the outside, but inside there were many problems
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America looked terrible from an outside perspective, but on the inside it was great
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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: -The “Gilded Age” term came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding.
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 lasted from the 1870s through the 1890s. The United States was transitioning from an agricultural society to an industrial one. The Gilded Age impacted American society economically, socially, and politically. The Gilded Age was a time of great wealth for a few and poverty for many.