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AP U.S. History Exam 2.28
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AP U.S. History Exam 1.34. Which of the following shifts in American Society is reflected in the image?

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AP U.S. History 3.1 Period 6: 1865-1898. Both excerpts reflect...what?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by consumption what is

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Easter we're supposed to eat a pound of chocolate right it's not Easter oh well [Man eating easter bunnies]

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whatever okay all right take a look at the following

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passage we hear now on all sides the term robber barons applied to some of

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the great capitalists...[mumbling]

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alright well here's an eighth question both excerpts reflect the what?

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then here is potential answers all right

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contrary to how it

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sounds the Gilded Age was actually in the late nineteenth century not when [King Midas appears with lots of gold bars]

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King Midas was around clever nickname cred goes to Mark Twain there seriously

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is really clever name the word gilded refers to an object that is covered in a

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thin layer of gold but made of something else underneath so the Gilded Age is a

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critical term calling out how the appearance of plentiful wealth covered [Woman wearing dress and poor man appear]

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up a poorly treated and well poor working class yeah totally it was clever

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alright so the unfortunate reality of the situation was that members of the

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working class could expect to work long hours for very little pay a lot of them [Construction workers appear]

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even sent their children to work to make ends meet factory work was often [Children working in a factory]

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dangerous and factory owners that weren't held accountable for unsafe work

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environment workers who were injured or killed on the job had almost no chance

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of legal recourse at courts usually held that the workers responsible for being [Worker appears in court before a judge]

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negligent that's the definition of unfair ladies and gentlemen now

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seriously grab a dictionary that exact sentence Rilla maybe okay we'll take a [Man holding a dictionary]

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look at answered be Twain may have scathingly called it the Gilded Age but

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despite its shortcomings it was a very productive period the Second Industrial [Cogs turning]

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Revolution was a time of rapid economic growth and invention it just wasn't very

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fun for the people who actually made that growth happen so we can repeat do [Man standing in an attic]

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both excerpt reflect eat a wing support for capitalism during the Gilded Age

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while the lower classes didn't enjoy the same bright and shiny experience of the

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Gilded Age as the upper class naturally they had some pretty strong feelings [Upper and lower class men standing beside each other]

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about this unfortunately there are opinions well

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didn't really count for much so we can predict eight what about a the South

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wasn't quite cheap enough with the dramatic economic growth to the north

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instead they seemed stuck in their agrarian past but the passages don't

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have much to say about the south at all not even a nice howdy [Magnifying glass inspects passages]

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or last year's old so that eliminates a and leaves us with see each of the

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passages presents an opposing viewpoint of the changing time some saw the

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increase in production the philanthropic efforts of the rich and political

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involvement as positive changes others were angered by the widening gap between

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the rich and the poor political corruption and poor working conditions [Person thinking of examples of gap between poor and rich, working conditions and corruption

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of the lower classes yeah guess who was who

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surprise surprise so C is the right answer guess it's hard not to be happy [Man standing in the snack aisle]

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when you can afford that much more chocolate than the rest of us

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