The Gilded Age: History and Facts

*The 1870s through the 1900s marked the years of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

*The Gilded Age was named after the title of a book written by Mark Twain in 1872 called The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

*The word gilded has several meanings, the first meaning is covered thinlywith gold leaf or gold paint.

*After the Civil War, America's railroads and businesses grew at a rapid pace leading to the Panic of 1893, an economic depression.

*The most important business men of the Gilded Age were: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and J. Pierpont Morgan. These men were not always fair when it came to business strategies.

*Corruption was common in politics during the Gilded Age.

*Charles Dickens is quoted as saying the Gilded Age was the best of times and the worst of times".

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