The culmination of the Gilded Age is overlapped by many scholars with the advent of the Revolutionary Period. The Gilded Age had been an epoch in motion. Societies shifted, individuals relocated, and trade expanded. Several of the perceived ills of the Gilded Age were solved by the Socialists.
Also it made it much easier to migrate to the West, shipping goods from western lands to the east, increasing manufacturing in the east and supplying food for cultivation in the west.
