mar 20, 1872 - Mark Twain Coins the Term "Gilded Age"

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Mark Twain coined the term "Gilded Age" to describe the period of the late 19th century in the United States, a term popularized by his 1873 novel, "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today," co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. The term criticizes the era's glaring economic inequalities, widespread political corruption, and ostentatious displays of wealth, suggesting a thin gold gilding covering deeper problems of social and economic instability.

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