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Okay Next up Which of the following lines best summarizes

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the passages overall fema All right We're presuming we've skimmed

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it enough now teo get a sense for this What

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do you think the gilded age was An era of

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enormous growth and prosperity for some and exploitation and misery

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for others Well this is the ambivalence that runs throughout

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the piece regardless of the winners and the losers though

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what everyone can agree upon is that america was in

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the process of extreme change simply defining this time period

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as the gilded age a or mentioning how that label

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has struck will be get rid of that doesn't do

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justice to the nuance and depth of the peace Likewise

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focusing on lee on the widespread corruption get rid of

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d or decline in agriculture Get rid E ignores all

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these other events that were happening at the time anyway

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The right anterior Yeah it's see some americans celebrated the

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new wealth Others lamented it all could agree that profound

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changes were taken place in the country That line that's 00:01:02.008 --> [endTime] the heart of the piece here that's it

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