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Mark Twain coined the phrase "Gilded Age" to satirize late 19th-century society as:
Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age implied that American society appeared shiny on the surface but suffered from corruption underneath.
Gilded Age industrialist Andrew Carnegie built his massive fortune in:
Carnegie adopted the Bessemer process to mass-produce steel, building steel mills that powered American infrastructure.
Gilded Age tycoon John D. Rockefeller dominated the American oil industry through his company:
Rockefeller used horizontal integration to control over 90% of American oil refining by 1880.
During the Gilded Age, Congress passed the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act to restrict:
The law targeted corporate monopolies that restricted trade and artificially inflated consumer prices.