2. The Second Industrial Revolution

3. The Expanding Industrial Economy

4. Railroads and the National Market

6. Andrew Carnegie J.P. Morgan John Rockefeller

7. Steel Production, 1880-1914

8. American Attitudes Toward the Robber Barons

9. 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

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

11. Gilded Age Politics

12. Political Corruption

13. Political Stalemate How healthy was Gilded Age politics?

14. Gilded Age Society

15. American Social Darwinism William Graham Sumner 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)

16. Debating Freedom in the Gilded Age Horace White 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.

17. The Overwhelming Labor Question

18. The Knights of Labor Terrance Powderly

19. 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

20. Edward Bellamy Bellamy’s Utopia

21. The Social Gospel Walter Rauschenbusch

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

23. The Haymarket Riot, 1886