Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded vast control over politics and business.
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The Gilded Age describes the tumultuous years between the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century when America saw unprecedented growth in industry and technology and when greedy, corrupt industrialists, bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth.
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Analyze the impact of the labor movement in America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Yellowstone’s stunning natural beauty inspired the 19th‑century push to set aside the land, where Indigenous people had been present for millennia.
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