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.
Traders exchanged rum for slaves on the West African Coast. Then, traders sold the enslaved Africans in the West Indies for molasses or brought them to sell in the mainland American Colonies.
These groups tend to be more conservative than their respective parties, and organize to influence legislation.
In 1753, Virginia's governor sent 21 years old maj. George Washington to a mission, deliver a message to the french, demanding that they leave the Ohio valley, not only they wanted to stop the expansion of the french, but also control a fertile region, with great rivers and transit corridors, Washington made his way to the valley with a family friend who spoke French, they arrived on December 11th 1753 and were received by the captain Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, who after reading the letter replied that the claim was "incontestable". Washington went back to Virginia and made it there after two and half winter months.
The answer is A city upon a hill :)
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