Context Flashcards
1
Q
The Gilded Age
A
- Industrial growth
- Capitalist culture
- Class-based society
- Wealth and prosperity
- Post civil war- political instability
- Innocent time
2
Q
Conspicuous Consumption
A
- Wearing nice clothes, eating nice food or traveling just to proved that one has wealth
3
Q
J.D. Rockefeller
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- First Self-made man
- Father of capitalism
- Made a monopoly of oil selling
4
Q
Women
A
- Couldn’t get divorced (unless abuse or infertility)
- not expected to work
- Had to get married and have children
5
Q
International relations
A
- Sceptical or Europe
- Isolationist nation
