There were several actions of the government around the turn of the century that social Darwinists would disapproved of, but one of the major ones was aid to the poor.
It is "<span>extension of slavery."
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The term that Mark Twain coined as an era characteriezed by a facade of prosperity was gilded age. "Gilded Age" was a title of a book that he co-wrote with Charles Warner. The book is about poor people trying to get rich and their relentless pursuit of wealth. Gilded gold was a term that meant that gold was placed on top of gold over and over, as in a bar of gold.
