1. Economic and Social Visions of the Gilded Age SWBAT: DESCRIBE VIEWS OF CRITICS WHO CHAMPIONED ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE ECONOMY & SOCIETY DURING THE GILDED AGE

2. Do Now  After reading “Historical Perspectives: Melting Pot or Cultural Diversity”, and using your prior knowledge discuss and respond to the following questions with your partner: 1. Do you agree more with Degler or Handlin? Explain. 2. Is the cultural diversity in the U.S. society today a permanent condition –or just unmelted bits of foreign ways that will someday fuse into a homogeneous culture?

3. Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?  Captain of Industry  Business leader whose means of amassing a personal wealth contributed positively to society in some capacity  increased productivity  provided more jobs  acts of philanthropy  Robber Baron  Businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth  exerted control over natural resources  influenced government  paid low wages  eliminated competition in order to create monopolies  Price-fixing Which term do you feel best describes the Big Businessmen of the Gilded Age? Explain your response.

4. Cartoon Analysis  Do the following cartoons support the idea of industrialists as “Captains of Industry” or “Robber Barons”?

8. Social Critics  Many criticized the practices of “Big Business” and the effects of these practices on society  Why did people in society criticize industrialists?  5 Social Critics:  Henry Lloyd, Edward Bellamy, Henry George, Walter Rauschenbusch, Jane Addams

9. Social Critics 1.Henry Lloyd- criticized methods used; concerned for the small businessman 2.Edward Bellamy- Looking Backward, showed a utopian socialist society in 2000, retirement age = 45 -anti-capitalist, “radical” -influenced Progressives

10. Social Critics 3.Henry George- Progress and Poverty, explained how industrial progress leads to poverty, because it creates two opposing classes: rich and poor

11. Social Critics 4.Walter Rauschenbusch- led the Social Gospel movement - Christians obligated to improves lives of less fortunate - “Hell’s Kitchen” in NYC - influenced Progressives

12. Social Critics 5.Jane Addams- founded Hull House (a settlement house) in Chicago in 1889 - Goal: have immigrants live with college-educated people to easetransition into American society - Taught cooking, hygiene, child care - Meeting places for young women activists Fun Fact: 1 st American woman to receive Nobel Peace Prize

13. Practicing Historical Thinking  After reading the excerpt from Jane Addams’, “Twenty Years at Hull House”, complete the two questions that follow with your partner