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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James L. Greenleaf era Gilded Age
Alva Belmont era Gilded Age
Henry Clews era Gilded Age
Grover Cleveland’s daughter Ruth Cleveland era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Ruth Cleveland
Louise Blanchard Bethune era Gilded Age
Morris & Company era Gilded Age
Ponce de León Hall era Gilded Age
John Mohler Studebaker era Gilded Age
Osborne Apartments, New York City era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Osborne Apartments
Edward Julius Berwind era Gilded Age
William B. Leeds Sr. era Gilded Age
Theresa Fair Oelrichs era Gilded Age
Truman H. Aldrich era Gilded Age
Wolfe family of New York era Gilded Age
Frick Building (Pittsburgh) era Gilded Age
Bourn Cottage era Gilded Age
Arabella D. Worsham era Gilded Age
David Munson Osborne era Gilded Age
Thomas Brackett Reed era Gilded Age
Julia Isham Taylor era Gilded Age
Waite Court era Gilded Age
Machinery Hall era Gilded Age
Edwin Fitzgerald era Gilded Age
Natirar Mansion era Gilded Age
lumber baron Thomas Hume era Gilded Age
subject surface form: Thomas Hume
King’s Handbook of Boston era Gilded Age
John Shaffer Phipps era Gilded Age
Weber and Fields era Gilded Age
Arcade Building site era Gilded Age
Burnham and Root buildings era Gilded Age
Lockwood, Greene & Co. era Gilded Age