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the vast waves of death and destruction and destruction that Napoleon cause across Central Europe destroyed the holy Roman empire paving the way for the rise of Germany some decades later it also cause deep resentment against the French by the Germans in the 19th and 20th century that would lead to further wars
E. They feared being imprisoned for defying the British government.
Great Britain established the worlds largest empire. =)
When germany experienced inflation, prices for goods increased. Such a rise in the prices of goods was dramatic and resulted in a hyper-inflation crisis rhat affected all the people.
Inflation refers to a general and sustained rise in the level of prices of goods and services; and when prices rise at phenomenal rates and money becomes almost worthless, we are talking about a hyperinflation.
Themes of the Gilded Age:
1. Industrialism: U.S. became the world’s most powerful economy by 1890s: railroads, steel, oil,
electricity, banking – America was transformed from an agrarian nation to an urban nation
between 1865 and 1920.
2. Politics: hard vs. soft money ('70s & '90s); tariff ('80s); corruption due to greed, patronage &
trusts (throughout late 19th c.)
3. Urbanization: millions of "New Immigrants" came from Southern and Eastern Europe, mostly
to work in factories.
a. Unions and Reform movements sought to curb the injustices of industrialism.
b. Farmers increasingly lost ground in the new industrial economy and eventually
organized (Populism)
4. The “Last West”: farming, mining, & cattle raising
5. By 1900 society had become more stratified into classes than any time before or since.
