Racism During The Gilded Age
During the period from the Civil War to present, the history about constructing the United States was full of violence and difficulties; the dark side even overwhelmed the positive side. Students probably hear about the Reconstruction, the Progressives, the Gilded Age, and Imperialism; however, the textbooks may hide some key points. Abandoning the unreal cover, the paper is dedicated to revealing the comprehensive historical facts about that period to understand what on earth happened to this land and to establish a critical history system. Moreover, people may have some clues to understand why racism is still roaming nowadays.
Black men played an irreplaceable role in the development of the U.S. and most significantly the victory of the …show more content…
It seems unbelievable date during the Gilded Age due to everyone thought about America was a wonderful place to go. Even though the government has a lot of money for construction, they were unwilling to help the poor workers. “In 1887… Cleveland vetoed a bill appropriating $100,000 to give relief to [farmers] to help them buy seed grain during a drought.”(Zinn 220) And He said, “encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character." But …Cleveland used his gold surplus to pay off wealthy bondholders at $28 above the $100 value of each bond-a gift of $45 million” (Zinn 220). Cleveland as a governor did not pay attention for people’s basic right and tried to say because his action, the workers can grow up well. Even though the government did not treat workers well, it still had a lot of immigrants work in America. Due to the low payment, their children also need to work to survive. Many of them worked over twelve hours with the low price. Sadly, in the America, it did not have a lot of people blame the fault of the system for the poor workers. During the Gilded Age and the progressives, a lot of worker strike. Although they just want to work for eight hours and pay more than before, the governors send the armies to calm them down or kill them. A lot of people get wound or killed. The leader of the action has been tortured and killed for stopping the strike. However, the workers did not stop and encourage to ask their basic
Black men played an irreplaceable role in the development of the U.S. and most significantly the victory of the …show more content…
It seems unbelievable date during the Gilded Age due to everyone thought about America was a wonderful place to go. Even though the government has a lot of money for construction, they were unwilling to help the poor workers. “In 1887… Cleveland vetoed a bill appropriating $100,000 to give relief to [farmers] to help them buy seed grain during a drought.”(Zinn 220) And He said, “encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character." But …Cleveland used his gold surplus to pay off wealthy bondholders at $28 above the $100 value of each bond-a gift of $45 million” (Zinn 220). Cleveland as a governor did not pay attention for people’s basic right and tried to say because his action, the workers can grow up well. Even though the government did not treat workers well, it still had a lot of immigrants work in America. Due to the low payment, their children also need to work to survive. Many of them worked over twelve hours with the low price. Sadly, in the America, it did not have a lot of people blame the fault of the system for the poor workers. During the Gilded Age and the progressives, a lot of worker strike. Although they just want to work for eight hours and pay more than before, the governors send the armies to calm them down or kill them. A lot of people get wound or killed. The leader of the action has been tortured and killed for stopping the strike. However, the workers did not stop and encourage to ask their basic