Research Paper On The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age was the best and worst time for people in the early 1900's. It was the best of times because of the newly improved economic market. The growth of industrialized business opened up new job for citizens of all race and nationality, new innovations, and new problems for those who worked in the factories and warehouses. The new economic growth was a good sight in the eyes of the citizens of the United States. It not only created new jobs, but it brought in a new wave of people looking for work from around the world, it created the invention of new machinery that made different jobs earlier, quicker, and more sufficient. Some of the jobs include textile mill workers, farmers, warehouses workers, railroad tracks layers, and coal mining was a few jobs that arose from the economic boom. These same jobs had workers
Even though the economy was doing well from this, the workers weren't. With the new jobs and invention of new machinery, jobs became more dangerous and because of competition some people were out of business. 22,000 people were killed or injured while working on the transcontinental railroad. Farmers who couldn't afford the new machinery that would've made their farming process were put out of business by competitors. This made people move away from the farm life and into the city for better jobs to support their families. The big businessmen like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie were more focused on making a profit for themselves. The economic growth affects society negatively and positively during the Gilded Age. The positivity was industry's creation of jobs, new inventions, and new ways to use things. The negativity came from the robber baron businessmen who were in complete control of the different markets, monopolizing and making every penny that came through their facilities