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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Lily Bart in The House of Mirth timePeriod Gilded Age
subject surface form: Lily Bart
House of Mirth setInTime Gilded Age
Jennie Gerhardt timeOfAction Gilded Age
George B. Post & Sons era Gilded Age
L. Bamberger & Co. historicalEra Gilded Age
Olympia Theatre historicalPeriod Gilded Age
Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness associatedWithHistoricalEra Gilded Age
this entity surface form: Gilded Age in the United States
Fairlawn Mansion heritage Gilded Age
Peter Brooks era Gilded Age
Melville Fuller era Gilded Age
Marcus Goldman era Gilded Age
Alice Claypoole Gwynne era Gilded Age
Naumkeag significantPeriod Gilded Age
Kingscote era Gilded Age
Kingscote significantPeriod Gilded Age
this entity surface form: American Gilded Age
Isaac Bell House era Gilded Age
Joseph P. Bradley era Gilded Age
The Elms, Newport, Rhode Island period Gilded Age
subject surface form: The Elms (Newport, Rhode Island)
Whitemarsh Hall, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Whitemarsh Hall
Grey Towers Castle, Glenside, Pennsylvania significantPeriod Gilded Age
subject surface form: Grey Towers Castle
Charles Hackley era Gilded Age
Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania stylePeriod Gilded Age
subject surface form: Lynnewood Hall
Temple of Music era Gilded Age
Nathan F. Barrett timePeriod Gilded Age
Whitehall era Gilded Age
John J. Glessner era Gilded Age
Barker Mansion significantPeriod Gilded Age
Memorial Presbyterian Church, St. Augustine, Florida heritage Gilded Age
this entity surface form: American Gilded Age
Ponce de Leon Hotel era Gilded Age
Alcazar Hotel builtDuring Gilded Age
Ida Alice Shourds timePeriod Gilded Age
Royal Poinciana Hotel era Gilded Age
Royal Palm Hotel era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Royal Palm Hotel (Miami)
Lewis L. Bradbury era Gilded Age
John B. Ford era Gilded Age
Beechwood era Gilded Age
Belcourt Castle era Gilded Age
Astors' Beechwood Mansion era Gilded Age
Phelps Mansion Museum era Gilded Age
George W. Howard era Gilded Age
August Belmont & Co. era Gilded Age