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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Julia Tuttle era Gilded Age
Charles M. Schwab era Gilded Age
The Associates era Gilded Age
Henry Ward Ranger era Gilded Age
Chester Alan Arthur II era Gilded Age
Isaac D. Fletcher House era Gilded Age
Harry F. Sinclair House era Gilded Age
David H. King Jr. era Gilded Age
Dexter M. Ferry era Gilded Age
Ward McAllister era Gilded Age
Silver Kings era Gilded Age
James Clair Flood was the primary financier era Gilded Age
subject surface form: James Clair Flood
Jubilee Jim era Gilded Age
Joseph G. Butler Jr. era Gilded Age
Harry K. Thaw era Gilded Age
Edward Willis Scripps era Gilded Age
P. F. Collier & Son era Gilded Age
Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly era Gilded Age
Abraham Evan Gwynne era Gilded Age
James Benton Grant era Gilded Age
Tilton v. Beecher era Gilded Age
The Mansion era Gilded Age
A. C. McClurg & Co. era Gilded Age
Grace Vanderbilt era Gilded Age
Joel Hurt era Gilded Age
Paul E. M. DuBoy era Gilded Age
Electricity Building era Gilded Age
Holland Torpedo Boat Company era Gilded Age
Jekyll Island Club era Gilded Age
Tampa Bay Hotel era Gilded Age
Vanderbilt family residences era Gilded Age
Tweed Ring era Gilded Age
Cordova Hotel era Gilded Age
Lyman G. Bloomingdale era Gilded Age
Florence Adele era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Florence Adele Vanderbilt
Florence Shepard era Gilded Age
Alice Louise Shepard era Gilded Age
Woodlea estate era Gilded Age
Adele era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly
Chicago-based Montgomery Ward department store era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Montgomery Ward