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Congress disposed of the Treasury surplus by making large appropriations for pensions, naval vessels, lighthouses, coast defenses, and other projects. It also passed the McKinley Tariff Act, which raised the already high protective duties and resulted in higher prices for many household commodities...
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In order to gain the support of the West for the bill, Congress in 1890 passed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, by which the government agreed to buy 4,500,000 oz (130,000 kg) of silver every month and to issue paper money equaling the full amount purchased...
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Gilded Age The Gilded Age, a time of industrious growth and an upsurge of immigrants. A time of rapid railroad developments and a boomingly increase of iron and steel production...	2 / 381
Gilded Age The period from 1870 to 1890 in America was commonly known as the Gilded Age, an era of growth and expansion of modern industrial economy in a U.S. where population growth increased and people scrambled for wealth during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era...	2 / 444
Big Business in the Gilded Age The exact period of time in which the Gilded Age occurred is ever-debatable, but most historians can at least agree that it started within the 20 years after the Civil War ended and lasted until the early 1920s...	4 / 943
Workers in the gilded age Before the industrial age, factories and workplaces were small enough that the owner knew everyone by name and often worked alongside his or her employees...	3 / 819
Gilded Age During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before. In New York, the opera, the theatre, and lavish parties consumed the ruling class' leisure hours...	2 / 326
gilded age During this time period workers were in increasing demand, so industries were looking for new sources of employees. Emigrants from Europe, China and Mexico were flooding into America and starting to work in factories...	2 / 357
the House of Mirth and the Gilded Age Historians refer to the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s as America's "Gilded Age." This was essentially a time when stock market trading and industrial expansion widened the chasm between America's "haves" and "have nots...	4 / 848