The Gilded Age is the time period when the United States had a rapid increase in population and economy. During this time there was corruption, such as strikes, unfair strategies within businessmen, monopolies, horizontal and vertical integration and the conditions for immigrants. The Progressive Period was the time period of reform, with the antitrust movement, muckrakers, the wisconsin idea, the hull house, and the pendleton civil service act. The Gilded Age and Progressive Period are time periods…
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