The Gilded Age

GPTKB entity

Statements (73)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_period
gptkbp:characterizedBy gptkb:urban_development
industrialization
political corruption
rapid economic growth
wealth inequality
gptkbp:endDate 1900
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Progressive_Era
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Gilded Age
gptkbp:location gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:The_Gilded_Age:_A_Tale_of_Today
gptkbp:namedFor gptkb:Mark_Twain
gptkb:Charles_Dudley_Warner
gptkbp:notableCase gptkb:Interstate_Commerce_Act
gptkb:Sherman_Antitrust_Act
gptkbp:notableCity gptkb:Chicago
gptkb:New_York_City
gptkb:Pittsburgh
gptkb:San_Francisco
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Haymarket_affair
gptkb:Panic_of_1873
gptkb:Panic_of_1893
gptkb:Homestead_Strike
gptkb:Pullman_Strike
gptkb:Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877
labor strikes
construction of skyscrapers
expansion of electricity
expansion of public education
expansion of railroads
growth of political machines
growth of suburbs
immigration surge
rise of consumer culture
rise of department stores
rise of monopolies
rise of tenements
rise of yellow journalism
gptkbp:notableIndustry gptkb:oil
gptkb:steel
banking
railroads
gptkbp:notableMovement gptkb:suffragist
gptkb:trade_unionist
gptkb:Populist_movement
gptkbp:notableOrganization gptkb:American_Federation_of_Labor
gptkb:Knights_of_Labor
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Andrew_Carnegie
gptkb:Booker_T._Washington
gptkb:Grover_Cleveland
gptkb:Ida_B._Wells
gptkb:J.P._Morgan
gptkb:Jane_Addams
gptkb:John_D._Rockefeller
gptkb:Leland_Stanford
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkb:William_McKinley
gptkb:Jay_Gould
gptkb:Benjamin_Harrison
gptkb:Chester_A._Arthur
gptkb:Cornelius_Vanderbilt
gptkb:James_A._Garfield
gptkb:Rutherford_B._Hayes
gptkb:Henry_Clay_Frick
gptkb:W.E.B._Du_Bois
gptkb:Jacob_Riis
gptkb:Thomas_Nast
gptkb:William_M._Tweed
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
gptkbp:startDate 1870s
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Cynthia_Nixon
gptkb:Roughing_It
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4