Unit 10: The Gilded Age Economic & social changes 1865 – 1920 Part one: The Last Frontier The Final settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West Historiography THE FRONTIER THESIS: Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History – July 12‚ 1893 1890 Census – no more defined frontier line; had pockets of settlement spread out Turner Thesis: spirit and success of US is directly tied to westward expansion; a turning point in American Identity American Identity:
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conditions. Many companies and corporations went on strike and even resorted to violence in order to spread their point. These workers mostly worked for low wages‚ or felt that they weren’t being treated fair. With acts of crime‚ these laborers felt that they could get there message to the companies‚ but most of the companies retaliated with hiring national guards to settle the issue or just locking the workers out of the job. The reason that these strikes turned to violent riots started is because the
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Andrew Carnegie was a very successful businessman. He was an idealist and one of the most important philanthropists of his time. He started Pittsburg’s Carnegie Steel Company‚ which he later joined with Elhert H. Gary’s federal steel company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel. The wealth from his success abled him to build foundations and institutions like Carnegie Hall. After his huge role in the steel business he spent most of the rest of his life as a philanthropist. In today’s
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The movement in organized labor from 1875 to 1900 to improve the position of workers was unsuccessful because of the inherent weaknesses of unions and the failures of their strikes‚ the negative public attitudes toward organized labor‚ widespread government corruption‚ and the tendency of government to side with big business. After the Civil there was a push to industrialize quickly‚ and the rushed industrialization was at the expense of the workers as it led to bigger profits for big business and
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The Gilded Age * During the Gilded Age‚ American businesses were transformed: * Massive corporations replaced small‚ family businesses * New technology‚ transportation‚ marketing‚ labor relations‚ & efficient mass-production * By 1900‚ the U.S. was the most industrialized country in the world * 19th-century inventors led to an “Age of Invention”: * Cyrus Field’s telegraph cable * Business typewriters‚ cash registers‚ adding machines * High-speed textile
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The American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like slaves‚ and work under unbearable conditions any longer. Workers joined together and realized that a group is much more powerful than an individual when protesting against intimidating companies. Unions‚
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List the barriers to labor union growth. Key Terms and Names deflation‚ trade union‚ industrial union‚ blacklist‚ lockout‚ Marxism‚ Knights of Labor‚ arbitration‚ injunction‚ closed shop !1875 1877 !1885 1877 Great Railroad Strike
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topics: The Everglades. The Women’s Suffrage Movement‚ Relocation of Native Americans to Reservations‚ The Dawes Act‚ The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (+5 points of done well)‚ The Civil Rights Amendments‚ Chinese Exclusion Act‚ The Pullman Strike of 1894‚ the Homestead Strike‚ The Invention of the Bessemer Process‚ Haymaker Riot‚ 2. 1 Biographical spotlights: Choose an important person from the Gilded age and explain who they are and how they affected the United States (2 Paragraphs) DUE 11/3-11/5
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Gilded Age to critique the United States in the late nineteenth century. Useful Terms: These terms were covered in class and will provide a basis for preparation for the exam. Western Settlement: Civil war loyalties Expansion‚ 1803-1854 Homestead Act Speculation Transcontinental Railroads Spin-off industries Plains wars Little Big Horn Reservations “Closed” frontier Cities and Workers Centennial Exhibition Urban growth Agriculture Mechanization Internal migration Immigration
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The Gilded Age was a tough time for workers. It was a time of low wages‚ long hours‚ and poor working conditions. To try to get higher wages‚ shorter hours‚ and better working conditions‚ workers would resort to strikes and labor unions. Some labor unions were successful like the Knights of St. Crispin. The Knights of St. Crispin was a labor union for shoe and boot workers. The labor union had its own factories and even its own stores‚ but it didn’t take long for the union to dissipate. However‚
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