Presidential Elections of the Gilded Age

 

James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley

 

James Garfield

Chester A. Arthur

Grover Cleveland

 

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

The Gilded Age was a time of immense industrial growth within the United States. J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller built companies that helped them amass their wealth. A labor movement started to grow as a result of the industrial growth.

Politics was characterized by corruption. By the end of the Gilded Age, a third political party was born. The Populists or the Progressives had a lasting impact but remained for only a short amount of time. The presidency was held by men who weren't as dominant as figures such as Theodore Roosevelt or Franklin Delano Roosevelt but helped restore some of the prestige of the office lost during the Johnson and Grant administrations.

 

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