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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Dungeness Ruins era Gilded Age
Plum Orchard Mansion era Gilded Age
Belcourt of Newport era Gilded Age
Greenback Party historicalEra Gilded Age
Adolphus Busch era Gilded Age
Cleveland administration partOf Gilded Age
George Dunton Widener era Gilded Age
Widener family associatedWithEra Gilded Age
John Sherman participatedIn Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age politics
Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb era Gilded Age
Peter Arrell Browne Widener era Gilded Age
Bellevue Avenue eraOfProminence Gilded Age
Wyeth-Tootle Mansion heritage Gilded Age
Hiram Sibley era Gilded Age
Social Customs historicalContext Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age United States
The Gilded Age portraysHistoricalPeriod Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age in the United States
Marian Brook in "The Gilded Age" era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Marian Brook
Kuser family historicalEra Gilded Age
Adler & Sullivan era Gilded Age
William B. Allison era Gilded Age
New Gilded Age comparedTo Gilded Age
New Gilded Age similarTo Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age in the United States
Elizabeth Jane Cochrane era Gilded Age
Cady, Berg & See era Gilded Age
Eastern Park historicalPeriod Gilded Age
Morris K. Jesup era Gilded Age
Mary Louisa Boit era Gilded Age
Bertha Palmer era Gilded Age
Piccirilli Brothers era Gilded Age
Plant System era Gilded Age
Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant historicalContext Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age United States
New York Herald Building era Gilded Age
Villard Houses significantPeriod Gilded Age
William Hale era Gilded Age
Gage Brothers timePeriod Gilded Age
Elkins family timePeriod Gilded Age
Knickerbocker Club foundedIn Gilded Age
Edward Henry Harriman era Gilded Age
Alva Erskine Smith timePeriod Gilded Age
Tiffany Chapel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition associatedWith Gilded Age
this entity surface form: American Gilded Age decorative arts
The Financier setInPeriod Gilded Age