The English named New York to honor the duke of York who later became king James II
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mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. ... It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism.
We went back to "Undisturbed Isolationism". We cut ourselves off diplomatically for the most part from many European powers out of fear of being brought into another World War. America was completely and only about America.
