The Gilded Age Essay

Industry DBQ The time period of 1870 to 1900, often called the Gilded Age, saw the rapid growth of corporations in number, size, and especially influence. To fully understand this time period, one must look at the context. Before this time period, the United States had recently ended the Civil War with the Union defeating the Confederacy. The Union was only able to win largely due to the growing industries which were rapidly developing in the North, while the South failed to industrialize…

cash to come. In his early life, he belonged to a poor family, and his father made a living by providing low transportation services. In order to support his family, Cornelius went to work at the age of 11, which was pretty common in those days. He started out by working with his father, but by the age of 16, he bought his first small ferry boat with the $100 his father lent to him. He used the money to buy a small sailboat because in his early days, as his father’s worker, his interest for…

The Veldt written in 1950 by the American writer, Ray Bradbury in the era that United States was experiencing significant economic, technological and social changes. The American economy experienced a golden age during 1950’s. While other countries in Asia and Europe were still rebuilding and recovering themselves from the World War II destructions, America’s economy had the chance to grow rapidly. Many factors involved in this economy boom. The GI bill let the veterans who could not afford…

During the late 19th century, the control of industrialists increased substantially. Robber Barons were known as businessmen who robbed people of their money. People such as Andrew Carnegie, who was very successful in the steel industry and John Rockefeller who came up with the Standard Oil Company are just a few examples. Andrew Carnegie wrote the “Gospel of Wealth” which justified the methods of their management. Although some of their methods were questionable, “Robber Baron” is not an…

In chapter 19, America underwent economic debacle and political cataclysm. In early 19th century, Most Americans didn’t know about the poverty until the Muckraking journalism exposed in 1890. In order to resolve urban poverty, Jane Addams established the first settlement house in Chicago, and some settlement house grew into the vanguard for urban reform. Since the many organizations like the settlement house were founded by women, the New Woman appeared for their autonomy and equality of gender.…

In this chapter of Empire of Liberty which I titled The Rising Glory of America, the author Gordon Wood bring the almost golden age beginnings of this relatively new nation and its bright future that we know today. He writes about culture, “Through the multiplication of newspapers, magazines, circulating libraries, and book clubs, through public exhibitions of paintings and the engraving and distribution of prints…Englishmen and other Europeans sought to exploit the arts in order to reform their…

in the last hundred of years. While in America, there are standards that have to be met to ensure the safety and wellness for the workers. In other countries, their regulations for factories are more lenient, resembling to the conditions of the Gilded Age with an exception of not being as extreme. Bigger corporations like Apple and Nike are having their goods produced in countries like China, Indonesia, and Vietnam so they can pay less for more work. Money makes the world go round and at the end…

through an image rather than pages of textual descriptions of every detail? Generally, students are disengaged in the content displayed through a history book, primarily because they believe that they have no similarities between those living in the Gilded Age and find it hard to sympathize let alone understand any individual from that time period. When viewing historical events through a graphic novel, a student will naturally become more emotionally connected. The student can understand a…

Situations like this are disturbingly prevalent in society today; two different families in the same city, or even the same street, can have lives ranging from one extremity to the other. It is not far off to say America is sliding back down to Gilded Age numbers when it come to inequality, and the nation needs to do something to fix it. The top one percent in America is disentangling themselves from the rest of the pack and is closing in on owning as much as the rest of the population all…

to rise up if born into a low economic class, and the majority of high rankings officials were born into their stations. The idea of one’s status being decided pre-birth is a recurring event throughout the decades in the United States. During the Gilded Age this theme continues with the richest 10% of the population controlling over 75% of the wealth. With that drastic numbers one can conclude that not all people are equal. The opportunity and possibility for the rich vastly outweighs that of…