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A. because the war lead to a large amount of debt
Yes, one reason is that America was extremely effective. The second reason is the rich were rich and had awesome lives yet the poor battle and had a hard life.
The period after Reconstruction, the most recent couple of many years of the nineteenth century, was known as the "Plated Age," a term instituted by Mark Twain in 1873. The Gilded Age was a time of change in the economy, innovation, government, and social traditions of America.
Missouri Compromise admitted the zone of Maine, the northern locale of what was then Massachusetts, into the Union as a Free State.
This was done to adjust the quantity of "slave states" and "free states." This happened because of a compromise about slavery in Missouri, and in the federal regions of the American west.