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Q: How can gilded age businessmen be seen as both robber barrens and captains of industry?
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Businessmen during the gilded age of the favored relaxed immigration laws because they?

valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor


Which industry was considered a catalyst of economic growth during the gilded age?

railroad industry


Who referred to the age of industry as the gilded age?

Mark Twain.


Who referred to the age industry as the gilded age?

Mark Twain.


Influential figures in industry in Gilded Age?

John D. Rockefeller.First billionaire


What was a trust during the gilded age?

A trust is when competing companies in an industry join together to control the industry. They form a monopoly.


Businessmen during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century often favored relaxed immigration laws because they?

Valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor


What effects did the Ranching frontier have on industry during the Gilded Age 1880s-1900?

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When an industry was monopolized by one company or trust during the Gilded Age what happened to workers and rsquo wages?

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How do you say 'gilded' in Bulgarian?

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Was Charles Tiffany a robber baron?

Yes! He monopolized the Gilded Age oil industry with the Standard Oil Company.


Who is the author of the gilded age?

"The Gilded Age" was first coined by American author Mark Twain. He was referring to the rapid industrial revolution in the decades after the Civil War. Something that is "gilded" is made mostly of a base metal like steel or iron and then covered with a layer of gold so that it looks valuable. Even though the post-war era produced many marvels, it often took advantage of the poor and less fortunate, thus the "base metal" beneath the gold