Gilded Age America
Laissez-faire federal republic
Gilded Age America leans hardest toward Free market, Protectionist and Traditional.
The 12 axes, with receipts
Strong states and a small federal government.
Mass party democracy, though Jim Crow stripped black citizens of the vote.
Almost no drug laws, but strikes were broken by force.
Inward-looking and wary of foreign entanglements.
A tiny standing army.
Mass immigration from Europe, but the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Robber barons and no income or inheritance tax.
Laissez-faire capitalism with little regulation.
Some of the highest tariffs in US history.
Protestant revivalism shaped public life.
Victorian morality and Comstock laws.
Railroads, electricity and breakneck industrialisation.
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United States72%
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