The Gilded Age was an age of corruption. It was run by political machines, local groups wanting to ensure their party stayed in power. The political machines were a feudal system in themselves. At the top of the political machine was the boss, such as Boss Tweed, a well known boss for his corruption in New York. The time period was called the Gilded Age because gilded means covered in gold and to the outside …showed first 75 words of 506 total…

…showed last 75 words of 506 total…their job because of some get rich scandal that the political boss was involved in. They went to work and came home and did as the political machines told them to. <Tab/>The Gilded Age suits the decade very well because everything was glorified but yet it was the exact opposite. The poor remained poor and in some cases got poorer. Political machines controlled all that happened during the Gilded Age.