Question

How does the Gilded Age compare to Reconstruction as a historical period?

Without Reconstruction, the Gilded Age would not have been possible because the South needed to grow more food.
Both periods relate best to a specific region of the nation and are generally perceived as having negative outcomes.
The Gilded Age has a negative connotation because it halted the social progress occurring under Reconstruction.
Each period has positive features that have been mostly ignored by contemporary writers and later historians.

Answer 1

I think its the first answer

Answer 2

@imqwerty @Plasmataco

Answer 3

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=9


That should help you out.