The history of the United States from 1865 to 1917 was marked by the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of
State Street in Chicago, c. 1900. The post Civil War era saw the rise of the United States as a major industrial economy.
Reconstruction gave male, Black farmers, businessmen and soldiers the right to vote for the first time in 1867, as celebrated by Harper's Weekly on its front cover, Nov. 16, 1867.
Temporary quarters for Volga Germans in central Kansas, 1875
Grange poster hailing the yeoman farmer, 1873
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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
History of the United States (1865–1917)
…The history of the United States from 1865 to 1917 was marked by the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States. This period of rapid…
The Breakers Newport
Bandits Roost, 59 and a half Mulberry Street
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