East and west of what exactly?
The event you are referring to is called the <span>Kristallnacht, or otherwise known as the night of broken glass. What you described occurred then.</span>
For number one i got that Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner were the first to call the years after the Civil War
the "gilded age."He was Struck by what they saw as the rampant greed and
speculative frenzy of the marketplac. The corruption pervading
national politics, they satirized a society whose serious problems, they
felt, had been veiled by a thin coating of gold..
For number two i got that The Democrats were the hardest hit by the farmers' defections from their
party to the Populists. They, far more than the Republicans, relied on
southern and western votes. And so they did what America's major
political parties usually do when facing a challenge from a third
part. They co-opted one of their challengers' issues and stole most of
their thunder.
If the temple was a large one (as most in the "New Kingdom" were), the Pharoah in charge of said temple would have to employ many people to upkeep them. Not only that, but the larger temples also housed smaller buildings in its parameters. People were paid to run these temples, which also doubled as a sort of Commerce area. However, the temples focused more so on religion and beliefs.