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Gilded Age politics, called the Third Party System, featured intense competition between two major parties, with minor parties coming and going, especially on issues of concern to prohibitionists, to labor unions and to farmers.
The Third Party System was a period in the history of political parties in the United States from the 1850s until the 1890s, which featured profound developments in issues of American nationalism, modernization, and race.
The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, employing the ironic difference between a "gilded" and a Golden Age. [60] Politically, the Republican Party was in ascendancy and would largely remain so until the 1930s with brief interruptions.
WHITE: One of the great issues of the Gilded Age was the gold standard. Political campaigns were fought over whether the standard should be based on gold, whether it should be a fiat currency ...
The Best Men: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age (1982). ISBN 0-226-76990-9. Summers, Mark Wahlgren (2000). Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884. (University of North Carolina Press). Summers, Mark Wahlgren (2004). Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics (University of North Carolina Press).
The Stalwarts were a faction of the Republican Party that existed briefly in the United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age during the 1870s and 1880s. Led by U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling—also known as "Lord Roscoe"—Stalwarts were sometimes called Conklingites.
The Gilded Age has become a hot topic in pop culture, with an HBO show of the same name (seen here filming behind the scenes in New York City). The 2022 Met Gala also had a Gilded Age theme ...
Politics. Science & Tech. Sports. Weather. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ... “The Gilded Age” is set less than two decades after the end of slavery. At one point, Peggy’s ...