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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Florham estate era Gilded Age
Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt era Gilded Age
Anna Gould era Gilded Age
Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Ophir Hall
William A. Clark partOf Gilded Age
Organic Act of 1890 era Gilded Age
Ida Saxton McKinley era Gilded Age
Bellevue Avenue, Newport era Gilded Age
Philemon Beecher Van Trump era Gilded Age
this entity surface form: American Gilded Age
William Barstow Strong era Gilded Age
John era Gilded Age
subject surface form: John D. Rockefeller
The Glitter and the Gold, 1953 subject Gilded Age
subject surface form: The Glitter and the Gold
William Rutherford Mead era Gilded Age
Edith Rockefeller McCormick era Gilded Age
Nannie Douglas Scott timePeriod Gilded Age
Nannie Douglas Scott associatedWith Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age high society
Frederick W. Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Frederick W. Vanderbilt Mansion
Eugene Schieffelin era Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age United States
Linda Lee Thomas livedDuring Gilded Age
Louise Holmes Anthony timePeriod Gilded Age
Emily Thorn Vanderbilt period Gilded Age
Ruth Livingston Mills era Gilded Age
Lyman Cornelius Smith era Gilded Age
Silas Lapham timePeriodOfFiction Gilded Age
Stormfield culturalContext Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age and Progressive Era United States
Lee, Higginson & Co. era Gilded Age
Ferncliff estate era Gilded Age
Richard Croker timePeriod Gilded Age
Johnson County War timePeriod Gilded Age
the phrase "The public be damned" associatedWith Gilded Age
subject surface form: "The public be damned"
Mina Miller Edison livedDuring Gilded Age