Modern era · c. 1870 – 1900

Gilded Age

In United States history, the Gilded Age is the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Gilded Age
Gilded Age · Joseph Keppler, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
c. 1870 – 1900
Where
United States
Era
Modern

Topics

Before and after

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