The Gilded Age was in the late 1800s before monopolies and trusts were ended by Theodore Roosevelt in the early 1900s. The people were wealthy during the Gilded Age and the 1920s were many of the same families, however, there were many newly rich people of the 1920s who made their wealth in the stock market. When the depression came many who made their wealth in stocks were broke after the Wall Street crash. The families from the Gilded Age survived the crash and are still wealthy today.
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