The Gilded Age
- Words to Know
- Republican legislation during the Civil War
- The National Bank Act of 1863
- Laissez-faire policy
- New industry
- Capital
- The changing nation
- The New York Stock Exchange
- Black Friday
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The foundations of industrialism (the social system that results from an economy based on large-scale industries) were established in the United States during the first wave of industrialization, or the development of industry, which occurred between the American Revolution (1775–83; the American colonists' fight...
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