ENG 2104 Lecture : Class 01 - January 9th, 2019 (2)
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The gilded age and the wounded knee: zitkala-sa. The period from roughly 1873 leading to the beginning of roosevelt"s presidency is often referred to as the gilded age. It is a term derived from a satirical novel by twain with dudley- The term gilded age (covering something with a gild of gold or silver became a dominant term for this section of history). Mark twain & charles dudley warner, the gilded age. The social inequalities that this was set to feed into. We have ostentatious monuments on one hand but a collapse of programs on the other. Shaped the way historians would perceive the end of the 19th century in american. Deemed the era to be one of incompetence and disintegration. The emergence of big business in america. Completion of the railroads made the first big federal business. You had the decline of the whaling industry.
