The Gilded Age 1870 -1900. Golden or Gilded? Mark Twain & Charles Varner wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today Gilded = Sparkle on the outside, corrupt.

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The Gilded Age

Golden or Gilded? Mark Twain & Charles Varner wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today Gilded = Sparkle on the outside, corrupt on the inside

Popular Ideals during the Gilded Age Individualism – An individual can rise in society despite humble beginnings. Horatio Alger – “Rags to Riches” stories Do you agree with this theory?

Popular Ideals during the Gilded Age Social Darwinism –which states that the strongest or fittest should survive and flourish in society, while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die. Competition Laissez – faire economics

Gospel of Wealth Wealthy obligated to aid society. Philanthropy

Realism

Popular Culture & Leisure Activities More free money Saloons Free toilets, water for horses, lunch Baseball Football- Started as an upper class sport Tennis, boxing, golf Vaudeville Scott Joplin- Ragtime

Reform Henry George – economists; Progress and Poverty Reform Darwinism – Cooperate, don’t compete Edward Bellamy – Looking Backward –Socialist Utopia

Naturalist Theory Naturalism – Some people fail due to circumstances that are no fault of their own.

Reform Organizations Social Gospel – Christian law, Washington Gladden Salvation Army YMCA –Place to stay, bible study, citizenship, recreation

Settlement Houses –Hot food –Medical care –Primarily led by women Jane Addams –Hull House –Kindergarten –Sanitation reform –Daycare center –Public bath

Americanization Public Schooling increased after Civil Assimilate immigrants to American culture –Taught English –American history –Responsibilities of citizenship –Discipline and a strong work ethic –Education opportunities

Education Morrill Land Grant Act –Provided colleges with land to build on Booker T. Washington started Tuskegee George Washington Carver worked at Tuskegee

Essay Question Discuss immigration during the –Who immigrated? Where did they come from? Arrival point? Life in the U.S? Education? Obstacles? –5 Paragraphs What factors (technological, social, economic) led to the U.S becoming an industrialized nation? –Time frame, key events, significant people, government’s role in this transition.