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Sedbober [7]
4 years ago
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Is the term "Gilded Age" an appropriate description for this time period?

History
1 answer:
antoniya [11.8K]4 years ago
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Answer:

This term was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, published in 1873. The term refers to the gilding of a cheaper metal with a thin layer of gold. Historians view the Gilded Age as a period of rapid economic, technological, political, and social transformation.

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