African- Americans, gained freedom, but just like women and immigrants they did not receive equal rights to those of men until the twentieth century. Voting was never an option for these three groups. They were always facing problems such as sexism, stereotyping and racism, people expected very little from them making them the most vulnerable groups in the country. They knew very little because they were not expected to get an education. The industrial revolution gave them work in the cities of the United States, but with exceptions. Wars boosted the economy with jobs, giving them chances they never dreamed of receiving, but these changes were taken back once the war ended, they were left jobless and the economy faced a dilemma, leaving Immigrants,
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During the industrial revolution the United States was viewed as the land of the free in which people can move in from all over the world and make a decent living without torture or being forced to conform to the ideas of their leader. The industrial revolution lead to the Gilded Age, figuratively meaning that America was painted gold, although it was brass, it fooled foreigners from all over the world into thinking that America was perfect. Many health problems arose and many deaths occurred during the Gilded Age, but immigrants still came in looking for work. Monopolies took advantage of their desperation and used them up until they could not work anymore and then they moved on to their next victim. An important event that occurred during the 1870’s was when workers, mostly immigrants, stood up to a 10% wage cut in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, at Martinsburg, West Virginia. They walked off the job and blocked the train tracks until they were paid as they favored, but the strike took out their wrath on the Chinese since they were the railroad builders. (Tindall, 591)1. Jacob Riis was a “muckraking” journalist and a social documentary photographer. He helped shed light on the poor conditions of the working class immigrant in New York City, he got the attention of the middle class family and helped better working
During the industrial revolution the United States was viewed as the land of the free in which people can move in from all over the world and make a decent living without torture or being forced to conform to the ideas of their leader. The industrial revolution lead to the Gilded Age, figuratively meaning that America was painted gold, although it was brass, it fooled foreigners from all over the world into thinking that America was perfect. Many health problems arose and many deaths occurred during the Gilded Age, but immigrants still came in looking for work. Monopolies took advantage of their desperation and used them up until they could not work anymore and then they moved on to their next victim. An important event that occurred during the 1870’s was when workers, mostly immigrants, stood up to a 10% wage cut in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, at Martinsburg, West Virginia. They walked off the job and blocked the train tracks until they were paid as they favored, but the strike took out their wrath on the Chinese since they were the railroad builders. (Tindall, 591)1. Jacob Riis was a “muckraking” journalist and a social documentary photographer. He helped shed light on the poor conditions of the working class immigrant in New York City, he got the attention of the middle class family and helped better working