The generalizations about city government during the Gilded Age which are true as follows:
B. They weren't able to provide basic services like clean water and fire protection.
D. They faced accusations of corruption.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The Gilded Age is characterized as the era between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. economy and population expanded rapidly, a bunch of political bribery and corporate financial misdealing occurred, and several wealthy individuals stayed very pricey lifestyles.
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner became the first to label golden age the period after the Civil War. It was knocked by what they viewed as the marketplace's unchecked gambling and trading madness, and fraud enveloping national politics, they disparaged a world whose major issues, they thought, had been obscured by a thin gold covering.
