1. The Gilded Age/ Social Darwinism
The Reillys
Section 6.3 ( )
The Spirit of the Gilded Age

2. Today’s Agenda September 21, 2015
Collect “letter home” paragraph
Reminder: HIPE (Essay or Presentation) due in 1 week
Put finished slide show in my Inbox by Monday morning
6.3 The Spirit of the Gilded Age (Conspicuous Consumption)
Homework
Work on Essay or presentation

3. Let Review Father of the Skyscraper
Government control over all economic activity and no private ownership
When a nation goes from farms to factories
Centennial Exposition
Let it be
Anti-Foreigner
Ben Carson
Built Brooklyn Bridge
Violence a legitimate tool
The Republican Party

4. Objectives for Today You should be able to:
Define and list at least 2 characteristics of the Gilded Age
Identify “The Breakers”
Define and give at least 3 examples of Conspicuous Consumption
Develop a position on the role government should play (if any) in dealing with severe economic disparity

5. Was America a great nation circa 1900?
Centennial Exposition showcased American know-how
Growing economy
Thousands of new patents
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6. The Greatness of America (ASof US, D2Ep3 begin at 9:00)

7. What was the Gilded Age?
Another name for America’s Industrial Revolution
America from
Gilded:
to cover something with a thin layer of gold to make it seem more attractive or valuable than it really is.
"Gilded Age"
coined by Mark Twain

9. What was the nation trying to gild?
Poverty
Child Labor
Crime
Alcoholism
Prostitution
Inhumane working conditions
Economic disparity

10. How did the American elite gild themselves?
Conspicuous Consumption
refers to the acquisition of goods in order to flaunt status & wealth
Many poor immigrant families lived on $445 per year
Cornelia Sherman Martin spent $360 thousand on 1 party
Disparagingly called Nouveaux Riches by Old Money People
New Rich
Molly Brown
Wealthy but lacked class, refinement

11. ASofUS, D2 Ep3 , begin at 18:00

12. Describe Vanderbilt’s, The Breakers.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s summer mansion in Newport, RI
Quintessential example of conspicuous consumption
interior used marble & rare woods imported from Italy and Africa
Gold Room
constructed in France, disassembled, shipped in airtight cases, and re-assembled in place in Newport

13. Are we still in a Gilded Age?

14. Royals by Lordes
I've never seen a diamond in the flesh I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies And I'm not proud of my address, In a torn-up town, no postcode envy But every song's like gold teeth, grey goose, trippin' in the bathroom Blood stains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room, We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams. But everybody's like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece. Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash. We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair.
And we'll never be royals (royals). It don't run in our blood, That kind of luxe just ain't for us. We crave a different kind of buzz. Let me be your ruler (ruler), You can call me queen Bee And baby I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule. Let me live that fantasy.
My friends and I—we've cracked the code. We count our dollars on the train to the party. And everyone who knows us knows that we're fine with this, We didn't come from money.
Chorus
Ooh ooh oh We're bigger than we ever dreamed, And I'm in love with being queen. Ooh ooh oh Life is great without a care We aren't caught up in your love affair. Chorus