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Funnily enough, the era’s name came from a satirical novel by none other than Mark Twain titled, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which mocks the era’s façade of wealth and prosperity, when in actuality, the lower classes were suffering worse than ever. America grew bountiful in the Gilded Age — there was a major boom in technology, industry, and travel.
Source: https://www.distractify.com/p/what-happened-during-the-gilded-age
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