The defining characteristics in the gilded age included individualism, urbanization, new values, art, and forms of entertainment. The Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post?Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century.
The correct answer would be : b. the Philippines
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Perry help the United States expand its influence in Asia as he negotiated the first treaty between the United States and Japan (Kanagawa Treaty).
The Kanagawa Treaty was signed on March 31, 1854 between Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States and the authorities of Japan, in the Japanese port of Shimoda. This treaty ended with 251 years of Japan's isolation and, at the same time, with its policy of exclusion (Sakoku), thus opening the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to trade with the United States, guaranteeing the safety of American shipwrecks and establishing a permanent consul.
Those who opposed giving the federal government more power than the states were known as the "Anti-Federalists", since they did not want to ratify the Constitution, which would have done this.