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1. Characteristic of the Gilded Age was free trade. There was minimum government involvement in businesses. This seems like a good thing but it lead to a lot of corruption in the upper class. The country enjoyed prosperity, but also endured the heel of the fat, rich, mean, old man who has become a recurring villain for Disney movies.

 

Toward the end of the 1880's, these "robber barons" were the arbiters of oppression. Hardship came from the greedy people at the golden top of the ladder.

2. Indirectly, the homeschooling of Thomas Edison created great wealth for himself and his country. He never gave up, he worked endlessly on all his projects. The thing about homeschooling is, you either make it big or you blow it all. It all depends on personal discipline and diligence. If you don't have that, you'll fail because you're alone and there's not a lot of push or encouragement from peers. Thomas Edison, however, was diligent in the extreme, so the sky was the limit; the discipline he learned from being his own student he used for the rest of his life.  

2. Indirectly, the homeschooling of Thomas Edison created great wealth for himself and his country. He never gave up, he worked endlessly on all his projects. The thing about homeschooling is, you either make it big or you blow it all. It all depends on personal discipline and diligence. If you don't have that, you'll fail because you're alone and there's not a lot of push or encouragement from peers. Thomas Edison, however, was diligent in the extreme, so the sky was the limit; the discipline he learned from being his own student he used for the rest of his life.  

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