The correct answer is north.
This was a period of rapid industrialization which was common in the northern parts of United States of America. It's called gilded because like gilded things, it seemed as if things were going great but that was just a thin layer that was covering a plethora of various social and economic issues. The south didn't experience this very much because they were rather traditionally oriented in their business endeavors and manufacture so they experience the problems of the gilded age as much as the northern parts did.<span />
one of the reasons was that they were forced by lethal military force
The Meiji government position on education for all Japanese children was to create a central system of mandatory education for every child, takin as model the American and European ones; with this the Meiji government hoped to prepare the people in order that they coul better adapt to industrial society.
Andrew Jackson, despite winning most of the popular votes in 1824 he failed to become president.