1. 1/20/15
Mid-Year reflection

2. Describe the growth of urbanization during the Gilded Age.

3. Mark Twain and Charles Warner’s “The Gilded Age”
“There are many young men like him [Philip Sterling] in American society, of his age, opportunities, education and abilities, who have really been educated for nothing and have let themselves adrift, in the hope that they will find somehow, and by some sudden turn of good luck, the golden road to fortune… He saw people, all around him, poor yesterday, rich to-day, who had come into sudden opulence by some means which they could not have classified among any of the regular occupations of life”

4. Gilded
Underneath the glittering exterior of the age hid corruption in politics and the growing gap between the rich and poor.

5. urbanization
The growth of cities

6. Ne York:
Manufacturing: boston, nyc, minneapolis, kansas city, denver, “The center of the storm”
The city dominated the nation’s social, economic, and cultural life.

7.
The nation was transformed from rural and agricultural to urban and industrial.
and far-reaching change in the economic and social life.

8. Manufacturing developed at a rapid pace and on a dramatic scale.
The number of miles of railroad tracks increased more than 600 percent, giving the US a nationwide transportation network.

9. Cities multiplied as thousands of people moved from rural areas and many more thousands poured in from around the world, especially Europe.
"The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World" was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the U.S. It was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

10. City structures created during this period displayed the following characteristics:
A strong spirit of nationalism
An interest in idealistic subjects
An appreciation for the artistic works of classical antiquity
Nationalistic Tendencies

11. Monuments to American war heroes and political figures dotted city streets.

12. Grand public buildings appeared, many with mural paintings depicting American progress.

13. Skyscraper Solved the problem of space
Identified the modern city: high density and hustle-and-bustle nature
Home Insurance Building, 1926 Chicago, built in 1885 by William LeBaron Jenney
Photo circa 1926 provided by Chicago History Museum, Getty Images

14. Expanded commercial opportunities and established residential centers (lower costs and greater profits)
Ames Building, Boston

15. "American Renaissance" (“City Beautiful”)
movement in American art and architecture that emerged between the 1870s and the early 1900s.
Architectural historians use the term to describe a
Brooklyn Bridge,
New York 1883

21. Mulberry Street Bend, 1889

22. 5-Cent Lodgings

23. Men’s Lodgings

24. Women’s Lodgings

25. Immigrant Family Lodgings

26. Dumbbell Tenement Plan
Tenement House Act of 1879, NYC

27. Blind Beggar, 1888

28. Italian Rag-Picker

29. 1890s ”Morgue” – Basement Saloon

30. ”Black & Tan” Saloon

31. ”Bandits’ Roost”

32. Mullen’s Alley ”Gang”

33. The Street Was Their Playground

34. Lower East Side Immigrant Family

35. A Struggling Immigrant Family

36. Another Struggling Immigrant Family

37. The Men who built America

38. Captains of Industry Person Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford J.P. Morgan
Business
Document Analysis: Treatment of employees
Document Analysis: Attitude toward government oversight
Document analysis: Public sentiment
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt

39. Carnegie
William Allen Rogers “A Trustworthy Beast” October 20, 1888.

40. Ford
Detroit, Mich., Jan Henry Ford, head of the Ford Motor Company, announced today one of the most remarkable business moves of his entire remarkable career. In brief it is:
To give $10,000,000 To 26,000 Employees: payments to be made semi- monthly and added to the pay checks.
Ford to Run Automobile Plant 24 Hours Daily in Profit-Sharing Plan
MINIMUM WAGE $5 A DAY
No Employee to be Discharged Except for Unfaithfulness or Hopeless Inefficiency

41. Morgan
“The Helping Hand” Puck Magazine - Puck Magazine via Library of Congress. 1911

42. Rockefeller

43. Vanderbilt
Joseph Keppler —  "The Modern Colossus of (Rail) Roads." Puck (magazine), Vol. VI, No. 44, pp