Rain on the Scarecrow‚ Light on the Farmers Plight In 1900‚ 41% of the workforce were employed in agriculture‚ 100 years later this diminished to 1.9%; astonishingly‚ during this timeframe‚ the U.S. population exploded from 71 million to 273 million. In the 1980s‚ the American family farmer once the backbone of the U.S. economy now faced dire straits‚ plagued by corporate consolidation and economic hardships. The family farmer was dying. In times of hardship‚ many families gather around a table
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This is about one of the most richest men ever to live. His name is Cornelius Vanderbilt. He was worth a million of dollars because he was very big in the railroad industry. He also had most of the big railroads all across the country that he used. Vanderbilt used these railroads to make money by transporting peoples goods that they needed to get in some places. They paid him to transport their things to like another state. He had a lot of competition for the railroads and one of his main competitors
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John D. Rockefeller was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the post-civil war time. Rockefeller’s achievements had the greatest impact for the United States beginning in 1870. John D. Rockefeller moved to Cleveland‚ Ohio as a young boy with his family. As he grew older‚ he decided to create a business in the oil industry. As stated by George Tindall‚ “Rockefeller recognized the potential profits in refining oil‚ and in 1870 he incorporated his various interests‚ naming the enterprise the Standard
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ct Powerpoints Review Syllabus Worksheets and Handouts Sitemap US History > Gilded Age Project REMEMBER Bring in your SIGNED forms for the first grade of the next 9 weeks! Outline of the Assignment Newspaper Project ct Powerpoints Review Syllabus Worksheets and Handouts Sitemap US History > Gilded Age Project REMEMBER Bring in your SIGNED forms for the first grade of the next 9 weeks! Outline of the Assignment Newspaper Project This is your opportunity to show
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John Jacob Astor is one of the earliest self-made multi-millionaires in America. Astor’s story of perseverance and strive truly embodies the American Dream. From 1763-1884 Astor went through one of the most historic eras in US history. From the restriction of the Embargo Act to the wars that divided us‚ Astor’s endeavor was true to America. However‚ it wasn’t until another 50+ years and over 400 other male millionaires did the first women make her first million. Sarah Breedlove‚ better known as Madam
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The Virtue of Industry In Benjamin Franklin “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection‚” he lists 13 virtues. Through extensive studies on the world’s major religions and various moral codes‚ he came up with a list of 13 main virtues that he felt every person should strive to live their life by. Virtue number six‚ industry states “Lose no time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.” When Mr. Franklin wrote this virtue he meant hard workers are Gone with
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robbery. Two men were involved in the crime. After the shooting‚ police arrived and interviewed Mr. Lazar and a bystander‚ Mr. Green. That afternoon Mr. Lazar looked through a stack of photographs and tentatively identified photographs of John Hudson and Dale Buckner as photos of the two men who had killed his wife. That night‚ after checking the two suspects’ arrest records and obtaining an arrest warrant for Hudson and Buckner‚ the police went to their apartment and arrested them. The police also found
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"Robber Barons" Long hours‚ dangerous work conditions‚ and low wages are just a few words to describe the treatment of workers at the turn of the 20th century. This was all in the hands of some powerful industrialist we refer to as "robber barons". There can be no mistaking their motives: wealth. It portrays men like Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller‚ Pullman‚ Ford and cruel and ruthless businessmen who would stop at nothing to achieve great wealth.They cared little about the lives and treatment of those
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A conflict theorist‚ a functionalist‚ and a symbolic interactionist would all have different perspective on Sam Polk’s article on wealth addiction as well as different explanations for his experience. Conflict theorists might say that the groups of rich and poor compete for the same resource- money- which creates conflict because the rich have much greater wealth and power than the poor do. Sam Polk saw the disparity between the rich and the poor at a young age as he explains in the article that
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Turn of The Century Author Project: Text Analysis The turn of the Century brought rapid industrialization‚ resulting in an increase in consumer goods and wealth. This industrialization‚ however‚ came with a price. The rise of trusts and monopolies consolidated the wealth and power in the hands of the few. To secure power‚ Political Machines were born and corruption in government and politics reached an all-time new high. Corruption permeated the American society and many authors‚ such as Lincoln
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