Despite these changes, the decades of the Gilded Age earned a reputation of widespread corruption in government and business, as well as the failure of the era's Presidents to resolve the persistent economic, social, and political problems facing the nation. ... At the end of the Gilded Age, the United States had developed a national economy, brought an end to its western frontier, survived one of the greatest periods of social tension in the nation's history, and started becoming an international power. ...

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