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The Gilded Age was an American era in the late 19th century which saw unprecedented advancements in industry and technology and the rise of powerful tycoons.
Overview of the Gilded Age, the period of monopolistic industrial expansion, gross materialism, and blatant political corruption in the U.S. during the 1870s that gave rise to novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after an 1873 Mark Twain novel.
Gilded Age. This time period earned the term the Gilded Age for seemingly beautiful and ambitious advances that masked corruption and exploitation beneath the surface. Even as technology promised to connect people, the nation remained socially, economically, and racially divided.
The Gilded Age. Roadside America. The Golden Spike: Does it really symbolize the completion of the transcontinental railroad? From the ashes of the American Civil War sprung an economic powerhouse. The factories built by the Union to defeat the Confederacy were not shut down at the war's end.
The era of rapid industrialization came to be known as the "Gilded Age." The term was coined by American writer Mark Twain (1835–1910) and his coauthor Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) in their satirical 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
Roughly spanning the years between Reconstruction and the dawn of the new century, the Gilded Age saw rapid industrialization, urbanization, the construction of great transcontinental railroads, innovations in science and technology, and the rise of big business.