Benjamin Harrison Administration - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
By the time Harrison became president during the so-called "Gilded Age" of U.S. history, the United States had assumed world leadership in industrial production. The term, which historians took from Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's 1874 novel, The Gilded Age, implies that although the times seemed attractive the appearance was deceptive, merely a gild. Despite the criticism implicit in the term "Gilded Age," a great deal of the infrastructure of modern, corporate industrialism was laid during these years. Not only was the United States now the world's leading producer of goods creating the wealthiest society in history, many cultural and social improvements were being made and the intellectual groundwork for twentieth-century progress in the country was being laid. This was the era in which national labor unions arose, when groups agitating for women's rights and suffrage coalesced, when numerous...
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