PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Successful industrialists ignored the safety of their factory workers, and instead focused on developing wealthy neighborhoods.
Fifth Avenue in New York was lined with mansions and townhouses.
By 1890, the wealthiest 1 percent of American population owned as much land as the other 99 percent.
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner wrote The Gilded Age, which was a satirical novel that described the materialism and political corruption that came with the growth of the industry.
OTHER NOVELS
- Theory of the Leisure Class
- The House of Mirth
Newport, Rhode Island home of coal magnate Edward Berwind cost $1.4 million to build. ($21.5 million today)
Newport home of William Vanderbilt, the "Marble House" cost more than $11 million (169.5 million today)
