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During the Gilded Age, many new social movements took hold in the United States. Many women abolitionists who were disappointed that the Fifteenth Amendment did not extend voting rights to them, remained active in politics, this time focusing on issues important to them.
Gilded Age: 1877–1896 ... Besides public health, the social hygiene movement also aimed to uphold moral purity and family values.
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.
‘The Gilded Age’ on HBO offers a fresh perspective of women’s roles during the late 19th century. But Meredith Clark writes that the history of the time period is far different than what is ...
Gilded Age: 1877–1896 ... New social movements arose, as well as many new alternatives to traditional religious thought. ... This was an age of reform movements, in ...
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 team behind the HBO series -- from "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes -- breaks down the real-life Black history behind character Peggy Scott.
The woman's club movement was a social movement that took place throughout the United States that established the idea that women had a moral duty and responsibility to transform public policy. While women's organizations had existed earlier, it was not until the Progressive era (1896–1917) that they came to be considered a movement.