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Railroads were the chief cause for the unprecedented growth of the Gilded Age. Railroad Barons by building of the Transcontinental Railroad made travel accessible to more people. A trip that would have taken six months now only took six days. It also made the shipping of goods across the company economically feasible and increased sales for businesses that relied on the transportation industry in some way.
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Did wages over all for Americans go up or down during the Gilded Age?
Most Americans experienced an increase in wages during the Gilded Age, as the United States experienced an overall increase in wealth nationally.
What period is most closely related to the Gilded Age?
The Realism Period is most closely related to the Gilded Age.
During the Gilded Age why could African Americans not vote?
They werent allowed to vote because most men were poor, or black.
What was the most important invention of the gilded age?
soap
John Rankin was the most famous conductor of the underground railroad?
Though he was not the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, he became known as one of Ohio's first and most active "conductors" on the Underground Railroad.
Who was the most notorious of the railroad robber barons because of the many companies he ruined while he got rich?
andrew carnegie
Northern business owner most likely belong to during the gilded age?
Republican
Did wages over all for Americans go up or down during the Gilded Age?
Most Americans experienced an increase in wages during the Gilded Age, as the United States experienced an overall increase in wealth nationally.
What party would a southern white supremacist most likely belong to during the gilded ages?
democratic
Who was the most powerful man of those in the US railroad business?
The primary railroad barons in the US were James Hill, Jay and George Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Edward Harriman, Collis P. Huntington, and others. Of these, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt probably was the most known and most influential. See American Rails.
Use Gilded Age in a sentence?
The Gilded Age (so named by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner referring to the ostentatious and excesses of the rich robber barons of the time) was an era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century (1865-1901) and is probably most famous for the creation of a modern industrial economy.
What period is most closely related to the Gilded Age?
The Realism Period is most closely related to the Gilded Age.
Who were the most powerful and wealthy noblemen?
barons
During the Gilded Age why could African Americans not vote?
They werent allowed to vote because most men were poor, or black.
Who was president during the completion of the transcontinental railroad?
Immigrants and minorities did most of the work on the first transcontinental railroad.
What president did the most damage in the gilded years?
johnson
What was the most important invention of the gilded age?
soap
