Gilded Age

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era in United States history historical period

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.

Aliases (6)

Gilded Age United States ×4
Gilded Age in the United States ×4
Gilded Age literature ×3
American Gilded Age ×1
America’s Gilded Age ×1
historical term "Gilded Age" in U.S. history ×1

Statements (70)

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 → Reconstruction era →
startTime	circa 1870 →

Referenced by (119)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Administration Building of the World’s Columbian Exposition → Alva Erskine Vanderbilt → American Museum of Natural History (original buildings) → Andrew Carnegie → Asa Griggs Candler → Ava Lowle Willing → Carnegie Free Library of Braddock → Charles Ranlett Flint → Charles Scribner's Sons → Cornelius Vanderbilt → Cornelius Vanderbilt II → Cornelius Vanderbilt II House → Flagler Museum → Frank Winfield Woolworth → Frederick T. Gates → Frederick Weyerhaeuser → George Pullman → Grover Cleveland → Henry Billings Brown → Henry Clay Frick House → James A. Garfield → James J. Hill → Jay Gould → John D. Rockefeller → John Jacob Astor IV → John Thompson → Lenox Library, New York City → Louise Whitfield → Louise Whitfield Carnegie → McKim, Mead & White → Million Dollar Staircase → Mills Mansion → Olivia Langdon Clemens → Petit Château → Richard Olney → Richardsonian Romanesque → Robert Wood Johnson I → Rockcliffe Mansion → Rutherford B. Hayes → Samuel Gompers → Staatsburgh State Historic Site → Stanford White → The Breakers Hotel → Ulysses S. Grant → William K. Vanderbilt House → William Kissam Vanderbilt → Wilson Brothers & Company →	era
Adolph Strasser ("Gilded Age in the United States") → American Publishing Company → Charles L. Webster and Company → Durant family → Edison Electric Light Company → Empire State Express → Frederick William Vanderbilt → Illinois Steel Company → Louise Church Delano → Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge → The Gospel of Wealth ("Gilded Age United States") →	timePeriod
Carnegie Steel Company → Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 → Coxey's Army march of 1894 → Great Chicago Fire of 1871 → Independent Treasury System → New York high society → Tenth Street Studio Building → The Marble House ballroom, Newport ("Gilded Age in the United States") → United States–Native American wars →	historicalPeriod
American Federation of Labor → American Woman Suffrage Association → Boston Daily Advertiser → Cornelius Vanderbilt family → Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 → Thomas M. Carnegie ("Gilded Age in the United States") →	historicalEra
Chateau-sur-Mer alterations, Newport ("Gilded Age in the United States") → Consuelo Vanderbilt → Hudson River National Historic Landmark District ("America’s Gilded Age") → The Gospel of Wealth → William Rockefeller →	associatedWith
Andrew Carnegie Mansion → Biltmore Estate → Brewmaster’s Castle → Camp Uncas → Sagamore Camp →	significantPeriod
Dependent and Disability Pension Act ("Gilded Age United States") → Langdon family ("Gilded Age United States") → What Social Classes Owe to Each Other ("Gilded Age United States") →	historicalContext
Charles Dudley Warner ("Gilded Age literature") → Horatio Alger Jr. ("Gilded Age literature") →	movement
Shingle style architecture → Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site →	period
A Hazard of New Fortunes → A Little Journey in the World →	settingPeriod
Meriden Britannia Company → The Breakers →	stylePeriod
Vanderbilt family →	associatedWithEra
American Renaissance architecture →	developedIn
Raquette Lake region →	eraOfMajorDevelopment
The Preservation Society of Newport County →	focusesOnPeriod
Reconstruction era →	followedBy
United States Steel Corporation →	foundedDuring
Chester A. Arthur →	governedDuring
Compromise of 1877 →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park →	hasHistoricAssociation
Hyde Park, New York →	hasHistoricEraAssociation
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today ("historical term "Gilded Age" in U.S. history") →	hasInfluenceOn
Carnegie libraries →	hasTimePeriod
The Marble House ballroom, Newport →	heritage
North Shore of Long Island →	historicalPeriodOfProminence
History of New York City →	includesPeriod
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today →	inspiredTerm
A Little Journey in the World ("Gilded Age literature") →	isPartOf
Frances Folsom Cleveland →	livedDuring
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age →	mainSubject
Mills family →	notablePeriod
Homestead Strike →	occursDuring
Burnham and Root →	operatedDuring
Adirondack Great Camps ("American Gilded Age") →	relatedTo
Panic of 1873 →	significantEventFor
Wild West →	timePeriodContext