Think Titanic.
In England and America, there is a vague sense of a vanished age of elegance and good order in the early years of the 20th Century.
This was undoubtedly a very good time to be born into the middle class. It would qualify you for a lot of privileges, in exchange for certain obligations in keeping up standards of social conduct and business trust.
We now find a lot of escapism in that period, especially in the trappings of the life of people at the top. Actually, letters and memoirs from that time confirm that people at the top felt they had a lot to complain about. Their own gilded age (if any) would have been earlier - for country gentlemen, certainly pre-railways and steam.
a new emphasis on acquiring goods.
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How can we connect the gilded age to the progressive movement
Gilded Age was the period that was roughly followed from the 1870s. The term gilded age was coined by the writers by the names of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
The Middle Class
a new emphasis on acquiring goods.
a new emphasis on acquiring goods.
a new emphasis on acquiring goods.
a new emphasis on acquiring goods.
a new emphasis on acquiring goods.
They were trated different from the high class.
There were no airplanes in 'the gilded age'.
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The political participation was high. This is during the gilded age.
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was caused by the ending of southern Reconstruction efforts and the rapid (and mostly northern) industrial growth.
How can we connect the gilded age to the progressive movement