One of the only governments to support democracy was this one. What was it like to be rich in the 1800s? At the beginning of the 19th century, owning land was a sign of wealth. It used to be called ...

“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913 ... credit to tariffs as he talks about America’s strengths in the late 1800s, according to historians. “That was a period of great economic ...