Mark Twain would have most likely used the phrase as B) a period of ridiculous excess. During this period there was rapid economic expansion and growth, but this did not extend to the working poor. The wealth expansion also created very corrupt politics. These factors came to define this period as the "Gilded Age." Twain was very critical of this period and its economic and political characteristics.
Writers help the urban poor by writing about their lives and their difficulties in populated cities and poor hygiene conditions. Which brought the attention of the upper class and the government to reform and improve the lives of the working class.
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En la mayoría de las potencias imperiales (Gran Bretaña, Francia, Alemania e Italia), las élites con diferentes orígenes estaban convencidas de que solo los países en expansión con colonias o esferas de influencia informales podrían sobrevivir en el futuro.
