The engines of America’s industrial transformation — the railroads, technologies, great corporations, farms and immigrant labor that built the Gilded Age economy.
Engines of the Gilded Age
railThe railroads that bound the continent and drove the economy.
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industryThe inventions and machines that powered American industry.
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businessThe rise of the great corporations and trusts.
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landAmerican agriculture in the age of mechanization and markets.
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peopleThe millions of immigrants who powered industrial growth.
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