U.S. History DeMYSTiFieD by Stephanie Muntone

Author:Stephanie Muntone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2012-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

Social Classes

High Society

American “high society” was made up of families who had been in America for several generations. Their position in the topmost social rank was not dependent on wealth so much as on ancestry—on the fact that their money was inherited rather than earned in trade. Men in this social class might sit in a law office for a few hours a day, or serve on a board of trustees, but for the most part, high society was idle. Members of this American aristocracy married within their own social set, spent months of every year traveling in Europe, and paid servants to look after all their needs. It was this class and the newly rich that gave rise to the phrase “Gilded Age,” a nickname for the decade of the 1890s.

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