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The cartoon discusses with concern the rise of industry in the Gilded Age, [2] [6] the expanding influence of monopolies and trusts, and the role of American lobbying. It is generally recognized as an early antitrust cartoon that played a role in the development of the Sherman Antitrust Act. [7]
Their idealism and reform sensibilities led them to oppose the corruption in the politics of the Gilded Age. [5] ... life-long Democrats" 1885 cartoon by Joseph ...
Celebrating ethnic pluralism on 4th of July. 1902 Puck editorial cartoon. Prior to the Gilded Age, the time commonly referred to as the old immigration saw the first real boom of new arrivals to the United States. During the Gilded Age, approximately 20 million immigrants came to the United States in what is known as the new immigration.
Robber Barons, standing for a Gilded Age of corruption, monopoly, and rampant individualism. Their corporations were the Octopus, devouring all in its path. In the twentieth century and the twenty-first they became entrepreneurs, necessary business revolutionaries, ruthlessly changing existing practices and demonstrating the protean nature of ...
HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age” takes a deep dive into the era of 1882 New York City at a time of heightened prosperity, industrial growth and an internal clash amid society as “new ...
The second season of The Gilded Age, airing now on HBO, follows the drama of two warring New York City opera houses—and was inspired by real-life events.Above, Taissa Farmiga, Carrie Coon, and ...
In The Gilded Age, The Breakers' Great Hall and Music Room act as Bertha Russell's (played by Carrie Coon) ballroom. This work of Neo-Italian Renaissance architecture was built between 1893 and ...
A frequent target of his satire was the corruption of early 18th century British politics. ... The Role of Puck's Cartoons in Gilded Age Politics from American ...