Explanation:
carthage for north Africa
Indus valley civilization and shou dynasty in china
Themes of the Gilded Age:
1. Industrialism: U.S. became the world’s most powerful economy by 1890s: railroads, steel, oil,
electricity, banking – America was transformed from an agrarian nation to an urban nation
between 1865 and 1920.
2. Politics: hard vs. soft money ('70s & '90s); tariff ('80s); corruption due to greed, patronage &
trusts (throughout late 19th c.)
3. Urbanization: millions of "New Immigrants" came from Southern and Eastern Europe, mostly
to work in factories.
a. Unions and Reform movements sought to curb the injustices of industrialism.
b. Farmers increasingly lost ground in the new industrial economy and eventually
organized (Populism)
4. The “Last West”: farming, mining, & cattle raising
5. By 1900 society had become more stratified into classes than any time before or since.
General Grant was the northerner who could out kill or outlast enemy and won many battles.
In the trade network, the American colonies depended on the British for finished goods and products. The colonies were responsible for exporting raw materials such as sugar, tobacco, indigo, etc to England
