Gilded Age
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In United States history, the Gilded Age is the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s histori
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First edition cover of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), a collaborative novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
The celebration of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, May 10, 1869
Robber baron (industrialist)
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Robber baron is a term first applied by 19th century muckrakers and others as social criticism to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen. The term appeared in that
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…competition in the market and some even effectively creating monopolies. The consequential amassing of a huge portion of the nation's wealth by a few "robber barons" resulted in their correspondingly enormous influence in politics, government, economy and society in general. Unions crusaded for the eight-hour working…
1904 depiction of an acquisitive and manipulative Standard Oil (founded by John D. Rockefeller) as an all-powerful octopus
1901 US cartoon from Puck depicting John D. Rockefeller as a business despot