The Gilded Age saw enormous industrial progress accompanied by the growth of appalling conditions in the slums of the cities and in the plight of farmers and others ground up by the "wheels of progress." The struggle between capital and labor (called a "war" by historian Page Smith) showed that Amer...

When a historian analyzes the time period that spanned from after the Civil War to the turn of the century, numerous changes are observed. The greatest change that holds significance to the present day was the explosion of industrialization. America underwent a metamorphosis from a chiefly agra...