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America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890

America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890. The Second Industrial Revolution. The Expanding Industrial Economy. Railroads and the National Market. From Competition to Monopoly. Andrew Carnegie. John Rockefeller . J.P. Morgan. Steel Production, 1880-1914. American Attitudes Toward the Robber Barons.

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America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890

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  1. America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890

  2. The Second Industrial Revolution

  3. The Expanding Industrial Economy

  4. Railroads and the National Market

  5. From Competition to Monopoly Andrew Carnegie John Rockefeller J.P. Morgan

  6. Steel Production, 1880-1914

  7. American Attitudes Toward the Robber Barons

  8. The Haves vs. the Have-Nots This was the cover of Matthew Hale Smith’s book about NYC. This illustrates the growing fear of rising poverty in the midst of growing wealth

  9. A View of Urban Poverty Jacob A. Riis, author How the other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890)

  10. Gilded Age Politics

  11. Political Corruption

  12. Political Stalemate How healthy was Gilded Age politics?

  13. Gilded Age Society

  14. American Social Darwinism What a blessing to let the unreformed drunkard and his children die, and not increase them above all others…How wise to let those of weak digestion from gluttony die, and the temperate to live. What benevolence to let the lawless perish, and the prudent survive. --The Christian Advocate(1879) William Graham Sumner

  15. Debating Freedom in the Gilded Age The right of each man to labor as much or as little as he chooses , and to enjoy his own earnings, is the very foundation stone of….freedom. Horace White

  16. The Overwhelming Labor Question

  17. The Knights of Labor Terrance Powderly

  18. Henry George So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. --Henry George, Progress and Poverty

  19. Bellamy’s Utopia Edward Bellamy

  20. The Social Gospel Walter Rauschenbusch

  21. Labor Unrest 1880-1900: more than 23,000 strikes (most in the industrial world)

  22. The Haymarket Riot, 1886

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