Beneath that veneer however lay the pervasive misery of the working classes. Development of the middle class. Joan Waugh S Gilded Age Homepage The businessmen formed a Citizens Association of Chicago and took it upon themselves to enact many of the insurance companies demands beyond the authority of the city government. . Mark Twain wrote of the Gilded Age a time of enormous wealth accumulated by a few. Carnegie was the son of working class parents who worked himself up from a working-class job to create his own company Carnegie Steel in 1873. The United Fruit Co. Brought in Venezuelan and American mercenaries. The United States lent support to a separatist rebellion in the Colombian province of Panama. Laissez-faire policies in the Gilded Age. Another critic of the era. Industrial strikes occurred with greater frequencyand greater violencefollowing the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Good Bad and Ugly. ...
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