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#Gilded Age

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People (13)
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-born steel magnate and America's greatest philanthropist
Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the United States, 1889–1893
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States, 1923–1929
Chester A. Arthur
21st President of the United States, the machine politician who became an unlikely reformer
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The railroad and shipping baron who built the template for American monopoly capitalism
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th President of the United States
J.P. Morgan
Banker, Financier, and Architect of American Industrial Power
James McNeill Whistler
The expatriate who made art about itself, 1834-1903
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of Standard Oil and the wealthiest private citizen in American history
Joseph Pulitzer
The immigrant publisher who built the New York World, 1847-1911
Louis Sullivan
The architect who gave the tall building a form, 1856-1924
Mark Twain
The Mississippi River humorist who became America's sharpest social critic
William Randolph Hearst
The publisher who bought his way to a newspaper empire, 1863-1951
Places (2)
The Brooklyn Bridge
Fourteen years, three Roeblings, and a span of steel wire, 1883
The Home Insurance Building
Chicago's contested first skyscraper, 1885
Events (1)
World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago's 1893 "White City" and the showcase of an industrial America
Concepts (1)
Social Darwinism
The Gilded Age ideology that dressed inequality in the language of natural law
Technology (2)
Edison's Incandescent Light Bulb
The 1879 Menlo Park demonstration that ended the gaslight era
The Skyscraper
The American invention of building up, from the 1880s
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