... ? Also, where did this wealth come from? For the answers to these questions we must go back into the times of the industrial revolution and the period known as the Gilded Age. To put things simply, during this period America had almost no middle class. There were the very, very affluent people, (known as Robber Barons) and the very, very poor people ... ...

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