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1 Gilded Age 1870-1900

2 “All that glitters is not gold” -Shakespeare

3 Social Mobility Individualism-humble origins; social mobility from working to middle or upper class Horatio Alger “Rags to Riches”

4 Social Darwinism

5 Which book to believe? Creationism vs. Darwinism

6 Gospel of Wealth “It ensures the survival of the fittest in every department…the concentration of business…in the hands of the few, and the laws of competition as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race…” – Andrew Carnegie Wealthy as trustees for the poor

7 Realism

8 Pop Culture Realism in literature Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain Portrait of a Lady- Henry James

9 Pop Culture, Cont’d.

10 Vaudeville and Ragtime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAtL7n_-rc

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