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The Gilded Age 1870-1890 Gilded Age Problems POLITICAL ECONOMIC SOCIAL.

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1 The Gilded Age Gilded Age Problems POLITICAL ECONOMIC SOCIAL

2 Political: Voting rights (suffrage)

3 Political: Government corruption

4 Political: Voters didn’t have much control over the government

5 Economic: Monopolies (trusts)

6 Economic: Treatment of workers (long hours, low pay, bad working conditions)

7 Economic: Child Labor

8 Economic: Consumer protection (unsafe products)

9 Social: Civil Rights (racism, segregation, and lynching)

10 Social: Anti-Immigration (nativism)

11 Social: Overcrowding in cities (poverty & sanitation)

12 Social: Alcohol Abuse

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