What is Gilded Age?
[[File:The Breakers Newport.jpg|thumb|300px|[[The Breakers]] is a Gilded Age mansion in [[Newport, Rhode Island]]]] '''The Gilded Age''' is a time in the in [[History of the United States|history of the USA]]. It lasted from the end of the [[American Civil War]], and up to the late [[19th century]]. It corresponds to the latter part of the British [[Victorian era]]. The name Gilded Age was first used by writer [[Mark Twain]] in ''[[The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today]]'' (1873). The time saw rapid progress in [[technology]] and [[railroad]] expansions and [[industrialization]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushistory.org/us/36.asp|title=The Gilded Age|publisher=US History|language=English|accessdate=2 November 2015}}</ref> [[Immigrant]]<nowiki/>s came in the millions. The intense political partisanship of the day included disputes over [[currency]], [[tariff]]s, political [[corruption]] and [[patronage]], [[railroads]] and business trusts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=9|title=Digital History|website=www.digitalhistory.uh.edu|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=9&smtID=4 Gilded Age Timeline] [[Category:19th century in the United States]] [[Category:Periods and ages in history]]