How did the Industrial Revolution change society during the Gilded Age?

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during the Gilded Age, the rapid transformation from an agricultural and mercantile economy to industrialism, presented unprecedented opportunities to daring speculators and inventive entrepreneurs.

As the United States economy transformed itself and grew under the leadership of new tycoons, America's established mercantile society once again transformed itself under the impact of the nouveau riche, opportunistic industry leaders or speculative railroad promoters.