Gilded Age (1 Aug 1870 Jahr – 1 Jul 1900 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

Thin layer of gold but below curroption lies
- Gov subsidies fuel western expansion
- Monopolies
- Businesses looked beyond borders for markets
- Social Darwinism + growing rich/poor gap
-"conspicuous consumption"
- Expansion of Workforce
- Pay down, child labor up
- Unions
- "New South"
-Bring industrialization to South (w/
sharecropping and tenant farming still)
-old immigrants->new immigrants
- big diff: new are poorer and less skilled
- Cities:
- divided ethnically and economically
- more jobs for everyone
- political machines: social services in
exchange for political support
- Transcontinental RR
- Politics:
- Focused on economic issues: Tariffs, gold
v. silver laissez faire, gov corruption->
seek for reform
- More nativism and racism:
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Chinese exclusion
- American protective association
- Intellectual movements:
- Justification for wealth: gospel of wealth,
social darwinism
- Social Gospel: protestant church
movement to improve cities
- Women and POC: Booket T.
Washington=vocational training, Ida b.
Wells= critic of lynching, Eliabeth
Stranton= women's suffrage

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