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rom the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War I, a period known as the Gilded Age, America experienced unprecedented industrial growth, vast accumulations of wealth for a privileged few, and frequent, often violent, labor unrest pitting industrial workers, tenant farmers, and small agriculturalists against “robber baron” industrial oligarchs, corporate monopolies, and, at times,

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