Trump Praises Tariffs, Gilded Age
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Trump says America was at its richest in the late 1800s. Here are the facts.
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President Donald Trump has pointed to history to explain his fervor for imposing taxes on imports.
Historians have a different view of the economy in the late-19th and early-20th century.
They say the U.S. was ascendant from 1870 to 1913 , but not at its richest.
For lower- and middle-class Americans , life was getting better during that period, but it was still more difficult than today .
The author of McKinley : Architect of the American Century: Tariffs are not the end-all and be-all.
“There were a lot of causes to America ’s rise. Tariffs were not the reason,” added UC Davis’S Meissner .
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