Research Paper On The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age was known as being a progressive age of expanding economic opportunities for businessman along with being an era of social conflict for farmers and other workers. This age can also be known as, "The best times and the worst times" As Andrew Carnegie stated, "The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship" This goes along with the quote stated in the question, he strongly believed that those who were wealthy were entitled to determine how they would administrate the money they earned and that money should not be inherited, but rather thrown into the sea then to help those who were not willing to help themselves. …show more content…
He did not agree in giving money to charities as he believed it did no justice to those who were not willing to put forth effort in bettering themselves. But this is where social conflict began to arise as there were many job opportunities for business man throughout the Gilded Age, what was happening to those unskilled farmers and workers? These men were being stripped of there agricultural jobs as the railroad and new technologies were taking over their tasks with machines leaving them jobless. Although all this financial growth was helping the capital as a whole there was also a gap being created in the economy between the rich and