Impact Of The Gilded Age

Extreme pressure on reservation lands created bloody conflicts included the Sand Creek Massacre, the Sioux Wars, the Black Hills War, the Battle of Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre. In these battles both parties fought through a gruesome war were natives attempted to get back their lands in efforts to killing pioneers and all white individuals alike. Most battles of the east fought to take back or ward off any settles from coming into their hunting grounds or sacred land, resisting the overwhelming power of the settlers, like the well know battle named the sixes wars or the Black Hills War. On the other hand, southwestern natives wanted revenge killing and kidnapping women and children, raiding settlements or killing leaders
It was the period glittering on the surface, but corrupt underneath with corporate buccaneers, of shady business practices, scandal-plagued politics Many factors that helped transform the East into an industrial development was also at work in the West during the late nineteenth century. The Gilded Age was an era of massive economic growth in the United States and unprecedented social change as the economy boomed in new areas, especially heavy industry like factories, railroads, and coal mining by the influences of the western
The railroads created the map as well as tight communities of immigrants that retained their languages and custom. The impact was so great the government stepped in by creating the Pacific Railway Acts, were money was reward to private companies grant to private railroad corporation's public land for every mile of track laid in any form also guaranteed payment of $48,000 for every mile of track constructed in mountainous terrain a gold mine for those who were seeking to make a fortune during the expansion creating a vast network of railroads all around