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F6 .. Gilded Age politics, called the Third Party System, featured very close contests between the Republicans and Democrats, and,
occasionally, third parties. Nearly all the eligible men were political partisans and voter turnout often exceeded 90% in some states.

The wealth of the period is highlighted by the American upper class' opulence, but also by the rise of American philanthropy (referred to by Andrew Carnegie as the "Gospel of Wealth") that used private money to endow thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, public libraries, symphony orchestras, and charities. John D. Rockefeller, for example, donated over $500 million to various charities, slightly over half his entire net worth.

The Beaux-Arts architectural idiom of the era clothed public buildings in Neo-Renaissance architecture.

The end of the Gilded Age coincided with the Panic of 1893, a deep depression, which lasted until 1897 and marked a major
political realignment in the election of 1896. This productive but divisive era was followed by the Progressive Era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

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