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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-born steel magnate and America's greatest philanthropist
Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the United States, 1889–1893
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States, 1923–1929
Chester A. Arthur
21st President of the United States, the machine politician who became an unlikely reformer
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The railroad and shipping baron who built the template for American monopoly capitalism
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th President of the United States
J.P. Morgan
Banker, Financier, and Architect of American Industrial Power
John D. Rockefeller
Founder of Standard Oil and the wealthiest private citizen in American history
Mark Twain
The Mississippi River humorist who became America's sharpest social critic
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World's Columbian Exposition
Chicago's 1893 "White City" and the showcase of an industrial America
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Social Darwinism
The Gilded Age ideology that dressed inequality in the language of natural law
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Edison's Incandescent Light Bulb
The 1879 Menlo Park demonstration that ended the gaslight era
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