Rapid economic growth generated vast wealth during the Gilded Age.
New products and technologies improved middle-class quality of life.
Industrial workers and farmers didn't share in the new prosperity, working long hours in dangerous conditions for low pay.
Gilded Age politicians were largely corrupt and ineffective.
Most Americans during the Gilded Age wanted political and social reforms, but they disagreed strongly on what kind of reform.
Answer:
For new opportunities after the American Civil war
Explanation:
Carpet baggers are described historically as "opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain." (-Wikipedia definition) This was used by Southern locals as a derogatory term who believed the carpetbaggers to be greedy and exploitative.
Answer:
To declare freedom from the rule of King George III
Explanation:
The declaration of independence was written after the Revolutionary War to officially declare free from British rule.
