america’s gilded age, 1870-1890
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America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890. The Second Industrial Revolution. The Expanding Industrial Economy. Railroads and the National Market. From Competition to Monopoly. Andrew Carnegie. John Rockefeller . J.P. Morgan. Steel Production, 1880-1914. American Attitudes Toward the Robber Barons. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Second Industrial
Revolution
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The Expanding Industrial Economy
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Railroads and the National Market
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Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John Rockefeller
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Steel Production, 1880-1914
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American Attitudes Toward the Robber Barons
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The Haves vs. the Have-Nots
This was the cover of Matthew Hale Smith’s book about NYC. This illustrates the growing fear of rising poverty in the midst of growing wealth
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A View of Urban Poverty
Jacob A. Riis, author How the other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890)
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Gilded Age Politics
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Political Corruption
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Political Stalemate
How healthy was Gilded Age politics?
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Gilded Age Society
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American Social Darwinism
William Graham Sumner
What a blessing to let the unreformed drunkard and his children die, and not increase them above all others…How wise to let those of weak digestion from gluttony die, and the temperate to live. What benevolence to let the lawless perish, and the prudent survive.
--The Christian Advocate(1879)
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Debating Freedom in the Gilded Age
Horace White
The right of each man to labor as much or as little as he chooses , and to enjoy his own earnings, is the very foundation stone of….freedom.
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The Overwhelming Labor Question
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The Knights of Labor
Terrance Powderly
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Henry GeorgeSo long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
--Henry George, Progress and Poverty
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Edward Bellamy
Bellamy’s Utopia
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The Social Gospel
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Labor Unrest
1880-1900: more than 23,000 strikes (most in the industrial world)
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The Haymarket Riot, 1886