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how the scientific method impacted

impacted what ? American culture during the Gilded Age?

"The scientific method revolutionized the study of human society during the Gilded Age and onward; sparking curiosity within the members of society, and encouraged people to gain knowledge, discover and investigate; causing them to question old credence, and starting to prove them wrong, thus leading to technological advances, and large scale production methods, the inception of intellectual movements and favored drastic reforms in education, thus bringing opportunities to other scope of the population, because racial, ethnic, religious, gender and socioeconomic inequalities still abounded, so it also inspired some reformers to address those inequities in some form."

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the tariff was created to protect industry in the northern part of the united states. industries in the north were being driven out of business by imported goods that were priced at a low rate. the goal was to protect these industries   by taxing the goods.

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