The Gilded Age 1877-1900 "The golden gleam of the gilded surface hides the cheapness of the metal underneath." -Mark Twain.

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The Gilded Age 1877-1900 "The golden gleam of the gilded surface hides the cheapness of the metal underneath." -Mark Twain

Inventions and Inventors

Elevator The elevator will make it possible for the skyscrapers like the Empire State Building to rise

Typewriter Makes creating documents faster and easier Also creates many jobs for woman as typists and secretaries

Thomas Edison Greatest inventor of his time Famous for the light bulb but also had over 1000 inventions and his own invention factory The electric light will change the world, as for the first time people can live and work at night with more than firelight He will also invent the earliest motion pictures making the movie industry possible

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell will invent the telephone and phonograph a type of record player This made communication much easier and gave people the opportunity to listen to music in their own home

The Men Who Made the Country Robber Barons The Men Who Made the Country

- Exxon-Mobil? - Wal-Mart? - GM? - Microsoft? -Which one do you think is the largest? -Who used to own Microsoft -How much money does he have? -At his hight he had 100,000,000,000

Gilded Age Wealth Gates doesn’t come close to Rockefeller Rockefeller only had 1.4 billion when he died, in today's money that equals 16 billion however standard oil controlled over 25% of the U.S. GNP, in today’s money that is over 1 trillion dollars

Robber Barons Between 1877 and 1900 America was run by men known as robber barons The presidents at the time were weak and pro-business, and there were few regulations on businesses These robber barons, or captains of industry by those who liked them, would exploit their employees allowing low wages and terrible working conditions to gain more profit. Andrew Carnegie  Steel J.P. Morgan  Banking Vanderbilt Family  Railroads John D. Rockefeller  Oil

A Scottish immigrant he came to the country without a penny to his name Eventually he will create Carnegie Steel, then U.S. Steel He was able, through vertical integration, to create a monopoly that would earn him millions Vertical integration buying the suppliers of your raw materials to put your competitors out of business He would give much of it away creating libraries and concert halls to help all people Wanting to help people with his wealth was known as the gospel of wealth Andrew Carnegie

J.P. Morgan Born in Connecticut to a banker Morgan would eventual become the leading banker in the world founding J.P. Morgan and Chase His bank was so dependable that he helped the U.S. out of debt by lending it 65 million in gold He would oversee the formation of General Electric and U.S. Steel

Vanderbilt Family Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt was the founder of a shipping company and the largest railroad company in the U.S. After his death in 1877 his son will take over and continue to run the railroad, his monopoly will be so complete that by 1890 nothing can be shipped across country without being on a Vanderbilt Railroad

John D. Rockefeller Rockefeller will form Standard Oil which will dominate the oil industry Standard Oil will own over 70% of the Oil in the U.S. at one point Standard will be ruthless gaining an advantage any way it can and destroying its competition It will be Standard Oil who will attract the notice of anti- trust activists

War of the Currents In the late 1800’s it was Thomas Edison vs. George Westinghouse in a battle for how electricity will be distributed Edison favored Direct Current Electricity and Westinghouse favored Alternating Current Westinghouse will win and to this day we use AC

Social Darwinism One of the reasons these Robber Barons as well as other factory owners would treat their employees so poorly was because of the idea of Social Darwinism The belief was that every person was on their own in society and the strong would survive while the weak would die off

What Do You Think? 1. Do you agree with Social Darwinism Why or why not? Answer in a paragraph

Urbanization

Immigration The Gilded Age will see the greatest increase in population in American history The population will double from 31.5 million to 76 million between 1865-1900 Most immigrants will come from southern and eastern Europe and be discriminated against

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus, 1883

Chinese Exclusion Act The group most discriminated against was the Chinese In 1882 the Chinese Exclusion Act will be passed banning all Asian immigration and will not be lifted until 1968

Transportation in the City The electric trolley and subway will change city life. People could now live away from where they worked and take mass transit However during this time some lived in terrible conditions in Tenement Housing tenements were apartments that were VERY close together and usually in terrible repair

Entertainment Also for the first time people will begin to watch spectator sports, especially baseball and boxing, this new entertainment will unite Americans The first motion pictures will also be invented during this time Also amusement parks will be developed at this time for people to enjoy themselves City parks like Central Park were developed to give those in the city a little green area to relax