The Transition Era Between Reconstruction And The Progressive Movement

The Glided age was a era of rapid economic growth. But in time the Gilded Age was expanded to include the period from the end of Reconstruction to the early twentieth century. Once it was considered to be merely a transitional era between Reconstruction and the Progressive Movement. But now it is regarded as covering the period during which we have the beginnings of modern America our modern industrialization and urban society. This helps give an explanation for the glided age of what it was about and the main purposes. Simply stating that it was a time of good work and money growth but also a time of little poverty.
The United States became the leading industrial nation in the world, because of their large immigration numbers and

the building of their empires nationwide. They built a powerful navy, defeated a world power, and acquired a large overseas empire. It was also transformed by the values of a new industrial and urban society. The most important and most influential development for Gilded Age America was the rise of industrial capitalism and the burgeoning of corporations that controlled nationwide industries and that supplanted the small, locally owned factories and businesses around which the national economy had hitherto been constructed.
Everything in these years seemed to be in motion and it was, as Howard Mumford Jones tells us, the Age of Energy. It was these developments that gave the Gilded Age its dramatic character and its importance in American history. They also established the foundations of modern America.