6The Civil War and the “Gilded Age”.ppt

All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cant read them. Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say. Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. When in doubt, tell the truth. Exit Continue The Gilded Age (1873), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), The Prince and the Pauper(1881) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court(1889) The Man That Corrupted Hadleydburg (1900), Mark Twain (1835-1910) Exit Continue Major works * * The Gilded Age Writer and humorist, Mark Twain, wrote the novel The Gilded Age ridiculing Washington D.C. and many of the leading figures of the day. Exit Continue Chapter 6 The Civil War and the “Gilded Age” Social background Exit Continue The saga of American wealth creation, both for the nation and for its enterprising capitalists, reached its apotheosis during the Gilded Age, a period roughly delimited by the end of Civil War and the beginning of World War I. In America, this period was characterized by seemingly boundless economic expansion and the emergence of a new nation, which had completed the conquest of its vast Western territories and taken the lead among other nations, in industry and trade. America had always been a continent of opportunity, a promising land for the adventurous capitalist as well as for the poor immigrant. Yet, during the Gilded Age, the rapid transformation from an agricultural and mercantile economy to industrialism, presented unprecedented oppor