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National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Wealth, the Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

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An excerpt from Andrew Carnegie's autobiography that describes his attitude toward wealth and an excerpt from the novel The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that suggests the giddy, unreality of an America caught up in boom times.

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Concepts
industrialization, mark twain
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andrew carnegie, gilded age, nhc toolbox: wealth, the gilded and the gritty: america, 1870-1912, literature of gilded age
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)