The Effect Of The Gilded Age

Greed can be a powerful motivating force, evident through the positive impact it had on Industrialization in America during the Gilded Age. During this time new inventions became plentiful, but where there were new inventions there also had to be new businesses to back these inventions up and allow them to be successful. Wealthy business owners were able to help in this regard. They already had the capacity to help facilitate the creation of these new inventions, but it did not stop there. This is where greed came in. Greed is the intense and selfish desire for wealth, and it was this that empowered the rich during this time to expand upon their already successful businesses to become even more rich and powerful than they were before. This led to a surge of businesses in the country, and it was all due to greed. It was this desire for more that led to an increase in productivity in the country that helped with the spread of technology throughout it which made it more enticing for immigrants coming to America.

Andrew Carnegie was believed by many to have stolen his immense fortune by underpaying workers while others believed he worked his way to get where he was, and deserved every last penny he received. Controversial figures like the one described caused a copious amount of issues while many tried to decide whether they believed these industrialists were robber barons or captains of industry during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. The Gilded Age was an important time is United States history that witnessed many concerning issues such as corruption, unemployment, and poverty. Because of the expansion westward and rapid pace of industrialization, many believed the United States had reached a “new golden age.” Relating to the term Gilded, the United States was looked upon as an unbelievably successful area, but had underlying elitists manipulating how the United States was viewed. The wealthy industrialists of the late 19th century were social darwinists involved in many unnecessary actions such as putting their employees in poor working conditions, underpaying their workers, and supporting children and women in the labor force.

The effects of the Gilded Age were substantial. The population in San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36,000 by 1852. Roads, churches, schools, and other towns were built throughout California, and the flood of instant wealth created a mountain of work for not only the local people, but also for immigrants. So, the Gilded Age brought about many positive changes in California. Even through, American government is blaming the new immigrants of overpopulating the nation, and for being the cause to all of the negative events that occurred, but it was the age of robber barons and the corporate exploitation of workers, and the divide between rich and poor was enormous. I believe "The Gilded Age" is a reference to how gilded objects look like gold, but the gold rubs off when touched, much like the increased industrialization of the country looked like a good thing, but had dark consequences, like discrimination. Before the Gilded Age, most of the newly arrived to the California territory were Americans, but tons of gold attracted tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and eventually China, who came to work. Those immigrants came to America for wealth, and avoided turmoil in their countries, but they also had to face low wages and discrimination from local people. In order to stay in America, they lived in the most terrible environments，and learned to live and suffer through such unfair treatment.

This time period of the Gilded Age was between the Civil War and World War I. The Gilded Age was an age of vast transformations for the United States. With the U.S. population and economy growing quickly, there were a lot of political corruption, corporate financial misdealings, and many wealthy people who lived very fancy lives. The Gilded Age also brought over a vast number of immigrants to our shores. This era showed the true meaning of the “American dream” and also the suffering it brought with it. Between 1865-1900 the Gilded Age was a time period when rapid growth occurred, especially in the North and West; however, the industrial workers focused on bettering the system while farmers were trying to be as successful as the industry. Therefore, their improvement to better themselves had similar industrialization.

The Gilded Age, as we call is, was the time between the Civil War and World War I. This was a period of change for the United States from both political and economic standpoints. It was during this time in which the United States transformed from a rural agricultural land into a modern and industrialized nation.

The Gilded Age was a very dark point for the U.S. As a nation, we experienced many troubles. From poor conditions in work to poor treatment of workers, the U.S. began a downward spiral. The Gilded Age, what happened in the Gilded Age, and how it affected the U.S. shaped us heavily as a nation and changed us for the better,

The greatest flaw of the “Gilded Age” was that the upper class were too rich and lower class was not moving up in the economy. The Gilded Age was an age of flaw for the economy system of America. The pictures taken by photographers, Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis compared to the pictures of The Carnegie Home, show the difference between both social classes; The poor and the rich. The picture taken by Hine and Riis are depicting the lower class.

The era after the Reconstruction, in the late 1800s, was referred as the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was an ironic term coined by Mark Twain. Mark Twain, an American author and humorist, used the expression term Gilded Age to describe how the society was like a cheap metal that is gold plated, it look shiny and beautiful on the outside but deep inside it was all rotten and fake. The Gilded Age occurred in the United States, it lasted from the late 1870s to the 1900s. It was an era full of tremendous growth, wealth and innovation. All over the world, people saw America as a thriving country and a land full of endless opportunities. Although America was seen as a flourish country, beneath all, it was a country full of political crisis, economical

America in the 19th century was a country undergoing change and quite rapidly accumulating wealth. That is, the upper 99% of the population were accumulating wealth, while the lower 1% (Give Me Liberty, Pg. 601-602) suffered unfair work conditions, discrimination, and low wages. America was dubbed The Gilded Age due to its apparent overall prosperity and wealth. However, this was not really the case because the lower classes/immigrants of the time had many disadvantages and the government did not do much to help them. Of course, this arose various complaints from the lower classes who called the government to action regarding the inequalities that they were facing. However, their needs and wants were often ignored by the government as it was

Around the start of the 20th century, America partook in a great period of reform known as the Progressive Era. The government’s previous laissez-faire approach in the Gilded Age gave way to massive urbanization and industrialization, and with it came a terrible deterioration of the middle and working classes. Efforts to remedy the different effects of ruthless capitalism collectively formed the Progressive Movement. Led by reform-oriented presidents, the nation aimed at making government more democratic, and managed the effect big business had on the people. Although the economic and social reforms of the Progressive Era successfully addressed the issues of the Gilded Age, as seen by increased regulation of business and the government’s heavy

Even though Josiah strong argues that the Gilded age was an era of corruption and an era were the corrupted and thieves were called heros (captains of industry), I think the Gilded age had many advantages and positive outcomes that benefited the United states both culturally and economically. For instance the cities were full of promises because they provided people with opportunities that they did not have while living in rural areas. Cities provided people with: entertainment, job opportunities, better wages, the sense of diversity. The cities built Mass transportation to ease people’s journeys to their workplaces, and they also provided them with parks, sports and theaters for entertainment. The cities gave people opportunities to work at

The Gilded age was named in a book by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that was The Gilded Age:A Tale of Today. It was published in 1873 and was about politics. I think Theodore Roosevelt set the whole country on an unsustainable path to ruin. He did not save the lower class, he put them in bad conditions to work in. The meat factories that the lower-class people worked in work not sanitary, they were not safe and very dangerous. The people also got very low pay for this job . I don’t think it is right to treat people differently based on if they are low, middle, or high class. I don’t think it was right for him to make richer people pay higher taxes. Because they are working harder than other people to make more money for their family

During the Gilded Age, American’s society changed dramatically in many aspects including communication, technology, education, industrialization, politic, economy, and culture. As citizens of a powerful nation with the dramatic growth and enormous wealth, many Americans also changed their attitudes and their ways of life. They tended to see themselves as “a powerful species.” Conceit and self-centeredness are attitudes easily to be found at many Americans in that period. From the political aspect, the appearance of imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century is a vivid evidence. According to Isaac 's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, men thought they could control the weather thanks to our scientific

From the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century many economic changes occurred, from booms to busts, but all effected minorities less favorably.

The Gilded Age took place during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century where unionization of workers became more frequent. The reasoning behind the name of this era is due to the fact that everything seemed nice on the outside in America, but in actuality corruption and inequality could be found underneath the surface. As the economy was changing during the industrial revolution, workers began leaving rural areas and flooding to urban areas for the opportunities, such as working for the oil or steel industry. The development of steam engine railroads for transportation and increased development of factory manufacturing techniques, caused more urbanization and generation of wealth for the employers. These factors of the changing work world cause the emergence of organization of the labor movement. The labor movement effectively made the workers voice heard but was less successful in achieving their main goals when bargaining with employers.