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One significant problem was political corruption and cronyism, fuelled by the connectio s between government and business. During the Gilded age , the United States endured a number of mediocre president and politicians, many of whom were in the pocket of business tycoons or corporations.
In Act 3, Scene 5, Hecate appears before the Witches and demands to know why she has been excluded from their meetings with Macbeth.