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Mar 31, 2024 · 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.
Apr 24, 2021 · Timeline from 1870 to 1880. Getty Images. By. Robert McNamara. Updated on April 24, 2021. 1870. 1870: Thomas Nast, the star political cartoonist of Harper's Weekly, began a campaign of lampoon the corrupt "ring" that secretly ran New York City. Nast's biting depictions of the Tweed Ring helped bring down Boss Tweed. February 3, 1870: The 15th ...
1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1870th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 870th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1870s decade.
Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870—1900. The challenges Americans faced in the post-Civil War era extended far beyond the issue of Reconstruction and the challenge of an economy without slavery. Political and social repair of the nation was paramount, as was the correlative question of race relations in the wake of slavery.
Front Matter; No image available 1: Western Expansion, the New South, and Industrial America, 1870–1890; No image available 2: Populism and Imperialism, 1890–1900; No image available 3: From Populism to the Progressive Era, 1900–1912; No image available 4: The Late Progressive Era and World War, 1912–1920; No image available 5: Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, 1920–1932
The People’s Party, or the Populists, reached national prominence in the 1890s on a platform of policies aimed at reining in big business and helping struggling farmers. In this article, we’ll compare the platforms, constituents, and actions of the three political parties during the Gilded Age.
