Gilded Generation (Strauss–Howe theory)

The Gilded Generation is the name given by sociologists to describe the generation of American people, born 1822–1842. It is an identified cohort within the Strauss–Howe generational theory.

They came of age amid rising national tempers, torrential immigration, rampant commercialism, conspicuous consumerism, declining college enrolments and economic disputes. As young adults, many pursued fortunes in frontier boom towns.

The US Civil War that left them decimated in that country, and as a whole distrusting of and institutional involvement.

Some of the notable persons who influenced this generation include Mark Twain, JP Morgan, Jay Gould,John D. Rockefeller, Ulysses S. Grant, Louisa May Alcott and Lewis Carroll.

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