What economic characteristics of the Gilded Age (1870s-1890s) might have helped to contribute towards consumerism in the 1920s?

the revolution instituted a short-lived roman republic.

populist movement, in u.s. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the middle west and south that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. thus in 1892 their leaders organized the populist, or people's, party, and the farmers' alliances melted away.