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Okay Next up ap ingle angers here we go The

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purpose of the second paragraph on line seven through eleven

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is primarily to do what Let's cruise up to on

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line seven There we go The label has stuck now

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usually applied to the period extended from the election of

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values that grand in eighteen sixty eight the elevation of

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roosevelt to the presidency term twenty century The term gilded

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age has survived because historians have found a great deal

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Validity in twenty ten dollars characterization of their own time

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Alright interesting Let's think about this Tween and dudley got

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it in the moment They could tell what was happening

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but it's only after the fact that historians knew whether

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they were right or not which is what the second

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paragraph confirms It essentially zooms out and gives the full

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context of what historians consider the gilded age Well the

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author doesn't provide any more information about twain and dudley

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government Well they're a considered correct so you're out of

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a rather than offering a competing theory Historians have confirmed

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the two men's hypothesis so get rid of be though

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the author stopped short of praising them and you just

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get rid of the right there While twin and dudley

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were introduced in the first paragraph and grant has mentioned

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on ly in these lines so get rid of sea

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So the right answer here Yeah it's deep Add context

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to the phenomenon described earlier That's it Where d is 00:01:20.114 --> [endTime] in done

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