The Gilded Age
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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in the closing decades of the 19th century during what has become known as the Gilded Age population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation as national wealth expanded to classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. The's disparities sparked passionate, violent debate over questions still being asked in around times, things government exist to protect private property or provide bomb to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system. Should the government concern itself chiefly with economic growth for economic justice? Battles over these questions were funding Congress, the courts, the polling place, the workplace and the streets. Thea. Outcome of these disputes were both uncertain and momentous and marked by a passion of vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans.