What does the term Gilded Age mean?

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What does the term Gilded Age mean? Gilded Age - period when corruption existed in society but was overshadowed by the wealth of the period (“gilded” is when something is golden/beautiful on the surface but is really cheap/worthless underneath Abuses in business and government caused problems for immigrants, laborers, and farmers Term comes from a book written about the time period by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in 1873 The Gilded Age

What does “Gilded Age Mean?”

What does “Gilded Age Mean?”