The economy of the gilded age was characterized bya. economic growth and high unemployment among unskilled workers.
b. rapid economic growth and social change.
c. a deep recession in which high unemployment fueled massive and rebellious social change.
d. slow economic growth and high unemployment among the middle class.

The right answer is b.rapid economic growth and social change.

The Gilded Age (1870-1900) was a period that followed the end of the secession war and the post-reconstruction period. It is marked by a strong economic and populational growth with no precedents. The causes of the rapid industrialization abundance of supply of raw materials, plenty of labor supply, both via migration, and immigration and the advent of new technologies, innovations that raised the productivity. Besides that, we can also point out the work of talented businessmen combined with a friendly government promoting laissez-faire, subsidies and international high tariffs.

in 1803 the louisiana purchase took place, doubling the size of the country. by 1840 almost 7 million americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous. the belief that settlers were destined to expand to the west is often referred to as manifest destiny.

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the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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