GILDED AGE VS PROGRESSIVE ERA

GILDED AGE

• time period- post civil war to 1896
• ⭐️growth of industry & wave of immigrants⭐️
• ⭐️social, political, economic transformation⭐️
• urbanization: population growth

GILDED AGE- ROBBER BARONS

• steel & oil in demand
• ⭐️produced great wealth for robber barons⭐️
• robber barons- Rockefeller, Carnegie...etc.
• ⭐️caused railroad boom to move goods⭐️

⭐️It was called the Gilded Age because everything looked perfect but underneath was political corruption and greed.⭐️

PROGRESSIVE ERA

• ⭐️happened because of rapid economic and social growth⭐️
• the US became a major world power
• began in the 1890's during a nationwide economic depression
• ended by the time the US entered World War I in 1917

Industry in the US had grown swiftly during the 1800's. ⭐️This fast growth caused problems such as corrupt politics, city slums, and poor working conditions in factories and mines.⭐️

In the 1890's and early 1900's, many ⭐️reformers helped bring about laws aimed at relieving these problems.These reformers began to call themselves progressives⭐️in 1905.