19th Century
Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded vast control over politics and business.
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As American industrialists and financiers accumulated incredible wealth during the Gilded Age, they strove to outdo one another with lavish spending.
Facing economic threats and violence, early Chinese immigrants banded together and created communities to survive—and thrive.
The swift, often comfortable ride on the Transcontinental Railroad opened up the American West to new settlement.
The Klondike Gold Rush was a mass influx of prospecting migrants to the Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after gold was discovered in those regions in 1896.
Labor Movement
Labor Movement
Analyze the impact of the labor movement in America throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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