Question

Need a lot of help with history if possible

Answer 1

For number one i got that Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner were the first to call the years after the Civil War the "gilded age."He was Struck by what they saw as the rampant greed and speculative frenzy of the marketplac. The corruption pervading national politics, they satirized a society whose serious problems, they felt, had been veiled by a thin coating of gold..

For number two i got that The Democrats were the hardest hit by the farmers' defections from their party to the Populists. They, far more than the Republicans, relied on southern and western votes. And so they did what America's major political parties usually do when facing a challenge from a third part. They co-opted one of their challengers' issues and stole most of their thunder.