The Gilded Age In The Late 19th Century

The Gilded Age, an evolutionary time in the late 19th century, which altered the common farmer’s life, from living in the rural into an industrial worker living in the city. The Gilded Age created the transcontinental railroad, racial tension, end of freely roaming Native Americans, tedious labor, unemployment, substantial immigration, an extreme government and fraudulent politics. With all these crucial events occurring from the early 1870s to the early 1900s, I believe the most crucial years in the Gilded Age consist of 1873, a time in which many events concluded, 1893, the commencer of the Great Depression, and 1896, the year of a fundamental election. The year 1873 marked the end of many movements and eras, but set the scene for other prospecting years. One big era that ended in 1873 was the Native Americans free roam over Western U.S.. The Battle of Little Bighorn( Custer's Last Stand) was the last successful Native American defense led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse against Custer and his men. Not much later, Native Americans were declared to live on reservations. Another era that ended was American Reconstruction, which left many legacies including the transcontinental railroad, 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Reconstruction, in the South, was intended to …show more content…
The Gilded Age converted the average agrarian American farmer into an industrial worker living in an urban society. The late 19th century ended many elite movements and eras, but also created many more which helped us identify ourselves as America. The three crucial turning point years in the Gilded Age include 1876, 1893, and 1896. 1893 being the most eminent do to its Great Depression economical issues. These various years are one of the cause on why we know America for what it is today. In general, the Gilded Age was time in America as the word “Gilded” suggests, gold and rich on the outside, but dreadful in the