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	Gilded Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), employing the ironic difference between a "gilded" and a Golden Age.
		The end of the Gilded Age coincided with the deep depression termed the "Panic of 1893." The depression lasted until 1897 and marked a major political realignment in the election of 1896.
		The Gilded Age was rooted in heavy American industrialization, the construction of railroads and the expansion of the American West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilded_Age (2315 words)

	The Gilded Age
		An era of intense political partisanship, the Gilded Age was also an era of reform.
		Mark Twain called the late nineteenth century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.
		It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /modules/gilded_age/index.cfm (435 words)

	"The Public Be Damned" A Thematic and Multiple Intelligences Approach to Teaching the Gilded Age \| OAH ...
		The Gilded Age often fails to generate much enthusiasm among students as well as teachers.
		The urban centers of the Gilded Age were larger, more densely populated, and ethnically more diverse than any previous urban settlements.
		During the Gilded Age there were many who felt the wrath of the cartoonist's pen; from politicians to tycoons, no one was safe.
	www.oah.org /pubs/magazine/gilded/cantuarticle.htm (2789 words)

	SparkNotes: The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1877–1917): Overview
		The Gilded Age and the first years of the twentieth century were a time of great social change and economic growth in the United States.
		Roughly spanning the years between Reconstruction and the dawn of the new century, the Gilded Age saw rapid industrialization, urbanization, the construction of great transcontinental railroads, innovations in science and technology, and the rise of big business.
		Some historians have dubbed the presidents of the Gilded Age the “forgotten presidents,” and indeed many Americans today have trouble remembering their names, what they did for the country, or even in which era they served.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/gildedage/context.html (832 words)

	The Raw Story \| The new Gilded Age
		For this new Gilded Age is made palatable by the illusion that people "choose" to be either rich or poor.
		In the new Gilded Age, no powerful government ever fails its citizenry and there are no catastrophes in the lives of low-income people--only lucky loafers enjoying the benefits of noblesse oblige.
		The tranquility of this new Gilded Age is secured by the substitution of consumer choice for genuine political choice, and abetted by a lazy, corporate-run media.
	rawstory.com /news/2005/The_new_Gilded_Age_0104.html (823 words)

	Rhode Island History: Chapter 6
		During the Gilded Age these "big four" industries were joined by a fifth major area of manufacturing endeavor -- rubber goods, especially footware.
		He did not start to work until he was past nineteen years of age, and then it was usually in a business that was operated by a member of his family.
		Towards the end of the Gilded Age, a movement called by historians the "New Immigration" brought a great wave of refugees from southern and eastern Europe.
	www.rilin.state.ri.us /studteaguide/RhodeIslandHistory/chapt6.html (2279 words)

	Digital History
		Mark Twain called the late nineteenth-century the "Gilded Age." In the popular view, the late nineteenth century was a period of greed and guile, when rapacious robber barons, unscrupulous speculators, and corporate buccaneers engaged in shady business practices and vulgar displays of wealth.
		It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, scandal-plagued politics, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism.
		During the Gilded Age, there were repeated attempts to use government to purify and morally uplift society.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=142 (618 words)

	The Gilded Age - Investment Bankers
		Pierpont Morgan was another monument of the Gilded Age.
		This son of a wealthy merchant banker joined forces with the Drexels of Philadelphia in 1873 to precipitate the fall of Jay Cooke, the patriot banker and Union bond broker now hopelessly entangled in the building of the Northern Pacific railroad.
		n many ways, the Gilded Age was also the age of the banker, who evolved from trade financier to railroad consolidator and organizer of industrial corporations.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/Gilded_age_index5.asp (612 words)

	H102 Lecture 04: The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption
		H102 Lecture 04: The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption
		The term "The Gilded Age" comes from a novel of the same name published in 1873 by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, which, though fictional, is a critical examination of politics and corruption in the United States during the nineteenth century.
		Money may or may not be the root of all evil, but it certainly played a major role in the politics of the Gilded Age.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/lecture04.html (1879 words)

	Alexander Street Press \| The Gilded Age
		Immigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment are just a few of the issues that came to the fore during the Gilded Age.
		The Gilded Age also brings together primary materials from libraries, museums, and archives including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Illinois State Library.
		The Gilded Age will be available on the Web beginning in 2006, either through one-time purchase of perpetual rights or through annual subscription.
	www.alexanderstreet.com /products/gild.htm (427 words)

	ARTSEDGE: The Gilded Age
		This three-lesson sequential unit explores the history, architecture, arts and culture of American high society from the 1890s-1920s, during the Gilded Age.
		Students will explore the varied art forms of the Gilded Age, then develop a creative piece to perform, present, and/or exhibit as a studio project.
		Students will research everyday life and culture during the Gilded Age, then create a short theatrical piece, based on their research, with historically-accurate characters, setting, costume, and props.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2492 (308 words)

	PBS - Mark Twain: The Gilded Age: 1869-1871
		At 34 years of age, Clemens entered into the longest and most faithful contract of his life: his marriage to Olivia Langdon Clemens.
		She was the daughter of a New York coal magnate, a member of the country’s wealthy elite.
		She would also furnish him her family’s home in Elmira, New York, a place where he visited often and wrote many of his best-loved books.
	www.pbs.org /marktwain/scrapbook/05_gilded_age (142 words)

	Gilded Age
		America in the Gilded Age - the site is huge, but some parts of it are not free.
		US History - Progressive Era and the Gilded Age - an enormous listing of links relating to most of this time period.
		Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
	www.mohonasen.org /dmslib/gilded_age.htm (286 words)

	U.S. History - Gilded Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Illinois In the Gilded Age is not only useful to Illinoisans learning about their state's history, as it also illuminates larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age as well.
		Illinois In the Gilded Age is a great site for Gilded Age issues, especially labor and politics.
		The most lasting accomplishment of the Exhibition was to introduce America as a new industrial world power, soon to eclipse the might and production of every other industrialized nation, and to showcase the City of Philadelphia as a center of American culture and industry.
	www.besthistorysites.net /USHistory_GildedAge.shtml (1759 words)

	Gilded Age (1878-1889)
		The growth of industry and a wave of immigrants marked this period in American history.
		All this industry produced a lot of wealth for a number of businessmen like John D. Rockefeller (in oil) and Andrew Carnegie (in steel), known as robber barons (people who got rich through ruthless business deals).
		The Gilded Age gets its name from the many great fortunes created during this period and the way of life this wealth supported.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded (178 words)

	Discover upstate New York, Adirondack history, sightseeing & cultural group tours itinerary.
		Mark Twain coined the phrase "gilded age" for the turn of the 19th century.
		It was a time when vast fortunes were made in America by the Captains of Industry who built railroads, manufactured steel and established Wall Street.
		Like those who came to the region during the Gilded Age, you'll be seeing breathtaking scenery.
	www.adirondackgildedage.com (259 words)

	The Gilded Age - Industrial revolution in America
		The Gilded Age - Industrial revolution in America
		Yet, during the Gilded Age, the rapid transformation from an agricultural and mercantile economy to industrialism, presented unprecedented opportunities to daring speculators and inventive entrepreneurs.
		his second book of "A Classification of American Wealth" covers the exciting period of the Gilded Age and sketches the origins of the large 19th century fortunes which were built by the people variously qualified as the tycoons, the moguls, the magnates or the robber barons.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/Gilded_age_index.asp (248 words)

	The American Experience \| Andrew Carnegie \| Gilded Age
		During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before.
		In New York, the opera, the theatre, and lavish parties consumed the ruling class' leisure hours.
		During the first years of the Gilded Age, Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall provided more services to the poor than any city government before it, although far more money went into Tweed's own pocket.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html (349 words)

	WWW-VL: History: United States: Gilded Age, 1876-1900; US History
		Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
		Gilded Age Bibliography 1880-1920 (from the Historical Novelists Center)
		The Fall of Third Parties in the Gilded Age
	vlib.iue.it /history/USA/ERAS/gilded.html (821 words)

	The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page
		When I was a teenager growing up on Long Island, one of my favorite excursions was a trip to see the great Gilded Age mansions of the North Shore.
		The vast income and wealth inequalities of the Gilded Age had disappeared.
		We are now living in a new Gilded Age, as extravagant as the original.
	www.pkarchive.org /economy/ForRicher.html (7371 words)

	Gilded Age and Progressive Era
		Course Syllabi and Teaching Materials (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progresive Era)
		Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Ohio State University)
		Gilded Age home page (S. Nelson, College of William and Mary)
	www.tntech.edu /history/gilprog.html (2104 words)

	weblinks- The Gilded Age
		Agrarian Protest in the Gilded Age - Powerpoint presentation (16 slides)
		Lyndhurst - A Gilded Age Mansion in Tarrytown, NY
		Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics
	www.historyteacher.net /AHAP/Weblinks/AHAP_Weblinks18.htm (1814 words)

	Websites for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (U.S. History, 1865-1920)
		American Life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
		Political Cartoons from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
		An Introduction to American Cultural Expression during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
	bss.sfsu.edu /cherny/gapesites.htm (179 words)

	The Gilded Age eBooks - Mark Twain - Visit eBookMall Today!
		The elders of the party were not long in discovering the fact, which almost all travelers to the west soon find out; that the water was poor.
		The Gilded Age, which Twain wrote in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner, is a romantic story set in the time of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency which is highly critical of his administration.
		Though some of the characters are memorable, this novel never reached the level of popularity or critical acclaim of Twain's other fiction.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebooks/gilded-age-twain-ebooks.htm (267 words)

	SparkNotes: The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1877–1917)
		SparkNotes: The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1877–1917)
		Home : History & Biography : History Study Guides : American : The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1877–1917)
		Ask a question or start a discussion on the SparkNotes community boards.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/gildedage (73 words)

	The Gilded Age
		H102 Lecture 05: Businessmen and "That Creature" the Corporation
		Gilded Age and Progressive Era: U.S. History Internet Resources
		Immigration in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
	cvip.fresno.com /~jsh33/gild.html (289 words)

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