Books
Period
Gilded Age America
c. 1870–1900 CE
After Reconstruction, the United States experienced rapid industrial growth, railroad expansion, urbanisation and immigration. Large corporations and new fortunes transformed finance, transport, manufacturing and communications, while workers faced dangerous conditions, irregular employment and violent labour disputes.
The period’s conspicuous wealth existed beside tenement poverty, racial exclusion, political machines and repeated economic crises. Reform movements challenged corruption, monopoly power and social inequality without resolving the deeper conflicts created by industrial capitalism.
Related people for Gilded Age America
Edward VII1841–1910 Franz Joseph I of Austria1830–1916 Jennie Churchill1854–1921 Jennie Pickett Parrishd. 1887 Lord Randolph Churchill1849–1895 Nicholas II of Russia1868–1918 Otto von Bismarck1815–1898 Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893 Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919 Victoria1819–1901 Wilhelm II1859–1941 William Randolph Hearst1863–1951 Winston Churchill1874–1965
Non-Fiction
3 Best Non-Fiction Books About Gilded Age America
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