1. Time of Ignored Problems
Gilded Age
Time of Ignored Problems

2. What does the term Gilded Mean?

3. The Gilded Age is
A period of seemingly extravagant wealth, growth and opportunity.

4. The “Good” and The Glamorous
The Upper Class
Nouveau Riche (Noo-Voh-Reesh) – Newly Rich
Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt
Public Displays of Wealth
Conspicuous Consumption
The development of the Middle Class
Rise of corporation and business created jobs in middle management
Accountants, Engineers, Clerks and Sales people.
Need for educated workers.
Professional School developed.

5. Other Positives Growth in Public Education Growth in Literature
Compulsory Education Laws
Hoped to instruct children in “proper behavior”
Civic Loyalty, American Values,
Yet Schools were still segregated by race
African Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans
Growth in Literature
Growth in Journalism

6. Leisure Time Large Urban Parks Large Extravagant Sky Scrapers Sports
Baseball 1869 – First professional baseball team in Ohio
By 1890 – Baseball had 60,000 fans
3 years later the first World Series was held between the Pittsburg Pirates and the Boston Pilgrims (Red Soxs)
Racism was a large problem in professional sports.
African Americans formed their own league
Football
Many thought was too dangerous – but grew in popularity
Basketball
James Naismith – Gym teacher invented the game in 1891
One of the few sports women were allowed to play

7. Entetainment Theater Ragtime Portraying Shakespear
Vaudeville – Many short performances
Animal acts, Comedy, singers, magicians, skits
Ragtime
Created by African American Musicians
1890’s - Ragtime Pianists played a stomping or driving rhythm with the left hand and a syncopated improvised melody with the right.
Scott Joplin became famous from Ragtime

8. The Bad and the Ugly Corrupt Politics Racism Women’s Rights
Working Conditions
Monopolies and Trusts
Urban Slums
Education
Conservation

9. Corrupt Politics Big City = Big Responsibility Political Machines
Well Organized political parties dominated city governments during the late 1800’s
Were excellent at getting certain people elected to office.
Political Bosses
Managed political machines
Would bully people into voting for certain candidates
Would make promises to businesses for convincing their workers to vote for certain candidates.
Won support
Providing jobs, services and political favors.

10. Political Machines Cont.
Often helped the urban poor.
Gained support from immigrants
Met them at Ellis Island, helped them get settled
Tammany Hall
Met immigrants ensured they were citizens and registered to vote, so they could vote for Tammany hall candidates.

11. Graft and Corruption Corruption – Corrupt voting practices
Voting multiple time
Bulling people for votes
Graft- The acquisition of money or political power through illegal or dishonest methods.
Almost all Political machines participated in this practice.
Kickbacks – Payments of part of the earnings from a job or contract.

12. The Tweed Ring An era of the Tammany Hall Political Machine
Political Boss was William Marcy Tweed
LOTS OF GRAFT
Estimated 200 million in Kickbacks
Thomas Nast
Series of Political Cartoons – in Harpers Weekly
Exposed William Marcy Tweed for corruption
Published some 50 images that exposed Tweed
“Stop them pictures. I don’t care so much what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But they can see pictures”
William Tweed

16. The problems Grow Racism Existed across all parts of life.
In jobs, in leisure, in education
Working Conditions
Triangle Fire
Monopolies and Trusts
No one was making sure business were not taking advantage of the consumer (the citizen buying the product)
Urban Slums
Tenement Houses
Education
Was required, but was focused on memorization and making immigrants good citizens
Was restricted, and difficult to attend
Not equal for all races

17. The Comparison
Tenement House
Wealthy Banquet

18. Why do we call this the Gilded Age?

19. Progressive Era – Age of Reform
Choose your Historical Character.

20. Progressive Era

21. Gilded Age –
Progressive Era

22. What does the word Progress mean?

23. What do you think the Progressive Era is?

24. The Progressives Chapter 9
Group of people who work to make change.
Focused on the number of problems in society.
Proposed reform.
Progressives had individual goals based on their own priorities.