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 of America
surface form: 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
surface form: American Civil War era

Reconstruction era
startTime circa 1870

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this entity surface form: Gilded Age literature
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subject surface form: Cornelius Vanderbilt II House
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John D. Rockefeller era Gilded Age
James J. Hill era Gilded Age
John Thompson era Gilded Age
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Robert Wood Johnson I era Gilded Age
Henry Billings Brown era Gilded Age
John Jacob Astor IV era Gilded Age
Frederick T. Gates era Gilded Age
Wild West timePeriodContext Gilded Age
Cornelius Vanderbilt II era Gilded Age
Frank Winfield Woolworth era Gilded Age
Wilson Brothers & Company era Gilded Age
Henry Clay Frick House era Gilded Age
the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 historicalEra Gilded Age
subject surface form: Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
Charles Ranlett Flint era Gilded Age
Ava Lowle Willing era Gilded Age
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other historicalContext Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age United States
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Mills family notablePeriod Gilded Age
Horatio Alger Jr. movement Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age literature
Burnham and Root operatedDuring Gilded Age