1. The Gilded Age
“It could be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinct Native American criminal class except Congress”
~Mark Twain

2. Gilded Age Presidents Ulysess S. Grant James Garfield
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley

3. Gilded Age Problems Government President Grant
Budgeted Cost $250,000
Government
Politics were corrupt Nationally and Locally
Political Machine
Tammany Hall
William Boss Tweed
$2 for $1
President Grant
Actual Cost $13,000,000

4. Gilded Age Problems Labor Issues Events
Child Labor
Low Wages, Long Hours
Unsafe Working Conditions
Mostly Immigrant Workers
Events
Triangle Shirtwaist Factor Fire 1911
Factory Fire in NYC, in 18mins 146 people killed.
Owners of the Factory put on trial……..
Labor Strikes
Haymaker Riot 1888
8 people killed by police
Pullman Strike 1894
Strike was violently put down by federal troops
Homestead Strike 1889
Violence between security force and Union Members resulted in hundreds dead

5. Gilded Age Problems Immigrants Women African Americans
Irish, Italian largest immigrant groups
Labor force of the country
Lived in urban areas
Gilded Age Wages $8.00 per week (1900)
Job shortages led to Organized Crime
Women
Mad less money than men
Could not vote or own property in some places
African Americans
Jim Crow Laws in the South
Move north to escape Jim Crow South

6. Gilded Age Problems Economic Issues
Less %3 of the population controlled 80% of the countries wealth.
Monopoly: Exclusive control of a Commodity.
Problems with a Monopoly.
No choices
High Prices
Low wages
No innovation
Andrew Carnegie: Carnegie Steel Company
John D. Rockefeller: Standard Oil Company
Union Pacific Railroad