Because every business , farm , shop , steel works , mine and bank was owned by the state.
For many Americans, the American Revolution chained their views of the enslavement of African Americans in that they started to view slavery as a hypocritical evil since they had just fought for their own "freedom" from Great Britain.
Essentially, after Muhammad/Islam conquered Mecca, they went over to present day Yemen and Oman and rekt that area too. Then muhammad died so yea.
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.
