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The Pros And Cons Of The Gilded Age

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Throughout the Gilded Age, there were many advancements in technology and the business industry due to business men like Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt. But many believed greed and gluttony of American society outweighed the positive side of the Gilded Age. As said by Mark Twain, the term “Gilded Age” refers primarily to the middle-class experience of the time. Even for the duration of the Gilded Age there was great economic depression. Along with how African-Americans were betrayed by the false promises of Reconstruction. They were subjugated in new and more severe ways. African Americans were subject to Jim Crow laws which was enforced with violent methods involving the terrorizing and lynchings of many. Also numerous farmers lost

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