Today's episode is a general overview of the Gilded Age and introduces some factors in the changing face of American society in the Nineteenth Century: Industrialization, Immigration, and Urbanization. The rise of Big Business and the Captains of Industry/Robber Barons elicits a response from the new wage laboring class of American's in the form of labor organization and we will introduce the beginnings of this friction today.
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