Question

What economic characteristics of the Gilded Age might have helped to contribute towards consumerism in the 1920’s?

Answer 1

Explanation:

1. The period after reconstruction,the last few decades of the nineteenth centurywas known as the Gilded age, a term marked by Mark Twain in 1873.

2.Th Gilded age was the period of transformation in the economy, technology, government and social customs of America.

3.This transformation forged a modern, national industrial society out of what had been small regional.

4.Many new corporation and business gave rise to ultra- rich individuals.

5. During the Gilded age ,the wealthy provided private money to endow thousands of colleges, hospital, museum, academic,schools,opera houses, libraries symphony, orchestras and charities.

6.This period is also referred to as "nadir of American race relations" a time when racism in this country is deemed to have beenworse than in any other period after the American Civil War.

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Answer 2

Gilded Age helped to contribute towards consumerism in the 1920’s

Explanation:

• The post-Civil War and Rebuilding period in the United States, which lasted from the late 1860s to 1896, is known as "the Gild Age."
• The Gilded Age has been an period of strong economic development in the North and the West in particular. Since American wages were much higher than in Europe , in particular for professional workers, millions of European immigrants flooded during the time
• The Gilded Age saw impressive economic growth and the unprecedented expansion of major cities. Technological innovations of the time included the skyscraper,  telephone, car, refrigerator, electric light bulb, linotype machine, electric motor, typewriter, advances in steel production, chromolithography, and several other industries. These inventions set the the bases for industrial productivity and modern consumerism.
• The United States was the peak level among the world's largest manufacturing countries by the end of the Gilded Era. The USA became a global leader in the Modern Era after the Gilded Age