Gilded Age

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The Gilded Age was a late 19th-century period in the United States marked by rapid industrialization, vast wealth accumulation, stark social inequality, and influential business magnates like Andrew Carnegie.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf era in United States history
historical period
associatedMovement Populist movement
labor movement
temperance movement
women's suffrage movement
country United States
culturalAspect growth of leisure and entertainment industries
growth of mass media
muckraking journalism (late in the period)
realist literature
rise of department stores
endTime circa 1900
followedBy Progressive Era
hasCharacteristic Native American dispossession
child labor
conspicuous consumption
expansion of railroads
growth of cities
immigration boom
income inequality
industrial capitalism
labor unrest
laissez-faire capitalism
machine politics
monopolies
patronage system
philanthropy by industrialists
political corruption
rapid economic growth
rapid industrialization
reform movements
rise of big business
rise of finance capital
social Darwinism
technological innovation
tenement housing
trusts
urbanization
weak labor protections
westward expansion
majorEvent Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Haymarket affair
Homestead Strike
Panic of 1873
Panic of 1893
Pullman Strike
majorIndustry banking
manufacturing
oil
railroads
steel
namedAfter novel "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today"
namedBy Charles Dudley Warner
Mark Twain
notableIndustrialist Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J. P. Morgan
James J. Hill
Jay Gould
John D. Rockefeller
notablePoliticalFigure Benjamin Harrison
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
James A. Garfield
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
precededBy American Civil War era
linked to: American Civil War

Reconstruction era
startTime circa 1870

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Andrew Carnegie era Gilded Age
Louise Whitfield Carnegie era Gilded Age
The Gospel of Wealth timePeriod Gilded Age United States
linked to: Gilded Age
Samuel Gompers era Gilded Age
Homestead Strike occursDuring Gilded Age
Reconstruction era followedBy Gilded Age
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today inspiredTerm Gilded Age
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today hasInfluenceOn historical term "Gilded Age" in U.S. history
linked to: Gilded Age
Adirondack Great Camps relatedTo American Gilded Age
linked to: Gilded Age
Charles Dudley Warner movement Gilded Age literature
linked to: Gilded Age
Olivia Langdon Clemens era Gilded Age
Million Dollar Staircase era Gilded Age
Carnegie libraries hasTimePeriod Gilded Age
McKim, Mead & White era Gilded Age
Camp Uncas significantPeriod Gilded Age
Sagamore Camp significantPeriod Gilded Age
William K. Vanderbilt House era Gilded Age
Thomas M. Carnegie historicalEra Gilded Age in the United States
linked to: Gilded Age
Ulysses S. Grant era Gilded Age
Langdon family historicalContext Gilded Age United States
linked to: Gilded Age
Durant family timePeriod Gilded Age
Richardsonian Romanesque era Gilded Age
Rutherford B. Hayes era Gilded Age
James A. Garfield era Gilded Age
The Breakers stylePeriod Gilded Age
Chateau-sur-Mer alterations, Newport associatedWith Gilded Age in the United States
linked to: Gilded Age
The Marble House ballroom, Newport historicalPeriod Gilded Age in the United States
linked to: Gilded Age
Chester A. Arthur governedDuring Gilded Age
Grover Cleveland era Gilded Age
Charles Scribner's Sons era Gilded Age
Hyde Park, New York hasHistoricEraAssociation Gilded Age
subject linked to: Hyde Park