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The Gilded Age, an era of mixed progression, occurred from the 1870s to the early 1900s. The United States had just come out of its Reconstruction period prior to the Gilded Age; a newly established United States was ready to be molded, or rather, “gilded.”Mark Twain, a famous author, named the era between the 1870s and early 1900s the Gilded Age. Twain gave this era such a name because this time period displayed American civilization to be cheap and flawed at its core. Although the economy was…

the true meanings and representations of Gilded age and progressive era separately. For Gilded age, it is an era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. Specifically, during this period, the industrialization of the United States grew and developed in a dramatically fast rate based on the factories and railroad construction and coal mining. Basically,…

serious environmental issues. For a lot of the country’s history, money had more importance than conservation, and an ethic of “man over nature” pervaded the culture. Forests were chopped down routinely to make room for cattle. However, in the 20th century Panama started to take positive steps in the opposite direction. The country started to create protected areas (including parks and wildlife refuges), write environmental laws, and establish conservation agencies. As Panama watched other…

Modernity In his article “Are We Really So Modern,” The Adam Kirsch raises the question, “what is modernity and when does one obtain such a thing?” He makes an interesting point that modernity has the same meaning to us today that it did for people back in the 1500’s. Kirsch uses historical phenomena like the discovery of the earth revolving around the sun instead of the sun revolving around the earth as examples. He analyzes the response to these new discoveries and ways of thinking and he…

since the 16th century. In the play Othello three women, each of a different social class, were part of the story and all had different roles and marriage rules to follow. Although many may believe the roles of women and marriage rules portrayed in Othello and in real life during the 16th century were extremely different, one might believe the book follows the rules very accurately. Some examples of this would be the roles of women in the 16th century, marriage rules of the 16th century, and how…

American Dream or American Nightmare? The American dream can be seen in many different ways, but they all revolve around the pursuit of prosperity and success. An American can achieve prosperity from a variety of jobs, hard work, and simple acts to achieve connections in society. The concept of the American dream commonly discusses how a man in the lowest walks of society can work his way up to a higher social class. This is possible in America but the way to achieve this is controversial.…

The Hidden History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art One of the largest and most respected cultural repositories in the world, the celebrated Metropolitan Museum of Art has been New York City’s premier center for art and culture for well over a century now. The largest and most visited art museum in the Western Hemisphere, the museum contains more than two million artworks and artifacts spanning some 5,000 years of human history. Few people, however, really know the history of the museum and its…

many, especially women of the 19th century, it remains a stale and blind relationship with which the only binding is a legal one - marriage. In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the protagonist Edna Pontellier is conflicted in her inability to escape conventionality for true independence because, in any instance, she still relies on a man to define her identity. She is either the possession of her husband or an accessory to her lover, showing how women of the 19th century did not have the power to…

were not given tax breaks, life was hard for farmers in this day while everything was still working out. Although it was rough to situate into this brand new environment, so many great things came out of this so called “Gilded Age”. The late 19th century saw the creation of the modern industrial economy.…

Populist DBQ The Gilded age is a term coined by Mark Twain to describe the period after the Civil War, specifically the period of 1865-1900. The Gilded age was a time of great change in the United states, it was dawn of new technology, government policy, and economic status, and changed the conditions of the American life for everyone. On paper, this Post-Civil War era seems like a period in the U.S. that was fueled by selfishness, corruption, and government misconduct, but in reality there…