In Chapter 20, we focus on the interaction of the political, economic, and social forces within American society during the Gilded Age. This period is characterized by high public interest in local, state, and national elections, political balance between Democrats and Republicans at the national level, and factional and personal feuds within ... depression, continued to call for a return of government to the people and crusaded for the "free and unlimited coinage of silver."" The frustrations that had built up in the Gilded Age "an age of transition from rural to urban, from agrarian to ind...

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