1. Chapter 10
The Gilded Age

2. The Gilded Age
Gilded – (def.) to coat with gold
The Gilded Age (def.) The period after the Civil War lasting until WWI, which was marked by the growth of industry and wealth in America, leading to materialism and political corruption.
Coined by Mark Twain and Charles Warner (1873)

3. Push Factors Farm Poverty Unemployment Wars Required Military Service
Political Oppression
Religious Oppression

4. Pull Factors
Land
Employment
Chance at Social Advancement
Freedom

5. Statue of Liberty
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
Emma Lazarus

6. The Immigrant Journey and Arrival

7. Steerage – the most basic and cheapest accommodations on a steamship

8. Ellis Island Passenger Search
Ellis Island (NYC)
Center for Immigration from 1892 to 1954, over 20 million new Americans passed through this island.
Ellis Island Passenger Search

11. Medical Inspectors
H – Heart Problems
K – Hernias
Sc – Scalp
X – Mental Disability
1 in 5 detained / sent home

12. Ellis Island

13. Angel Island (San Francisco, CA)

14. Angel Island (cont.)
The Ellis Island of the west – center for immigration near San Francisco.
Immigrants from Asia (China, Japan, India)

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16. Tenements
Dark, crowded, multi-family apartments – largely occupied by immigrants upon arrival

17. NYC (800,000, 1860 ; 3.5 million, 1900)
New York City The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island

18. Ethnic Neighborhoods
Joe’s Shanghai

19. Urbanization
Def. The growth of cities. The process of moving from a more rural dominated state, to a city dominated state.
Industrialization led to Urbanization
75% of people live in urban areas today.
Suburbs

20. Results of Urbanization and Population Growth
Nativism - A preference for native born people
Opposition to immigrants
Unemployment and low wages
Crime
Two Groups Targeted the Most
Irish Catholics
Chinese

21. Political Machines and Party Bosses
Political machine – an informal group designed to gain and keep power
Usually corrupt
Party boss – an individual who runs a political machine (the leader)

22. Cultural Developments
Realism
A movement in art and literature that attempted to depict life as it actually exists.
Usually focusing on the middle and lower classes
Different than…
Romanticism
Movement in art and literature that focused on imagination and emotion to illustrate life and the world.

23. Romanticism or Realism
Robert Henri Snow in New York, 1902 Chester Dale Collection

24. Romanticism or Realism
Romanticism Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, American,

25. Romanticism or Realism
George Bellows Both Members of This Club, 1909
Chester Dale Collection

26. Romanticism or Realism

27. Romanticism or Realism
J.W. Turner

28. Romanticism or Realism
Thomas Eakins
The Gross Clinic,
(1875)
oil on canvas

29. Frank Lloyd Wright

32. Jane Addams
Hull House (Chicago)
Nobel Peace Prize (1931)

33. Gospel of Wealth
Philanthropy

34. Social Darwinism

35. Ragtime and Vaudeville