1. Daily Quiz #1
1. The dominate culture in the United States in 1776 was? a. Irish b. English c. German d. Scottish 2. In 1770, America was almost completely? a. Urban b. Industrial c. Rural d. Tolerant

2. Daily Quiz #1
3. A member of a Nativist Movement believes in? a. Increased immigration b. American Indian rights c. Integration of blacks and whites d. Limiting or stopping immigration 4. Which is NOT a way the wealthy viewed immigrants? a. Source of cheap labor. b. Members of the political process. c. Sources of Radical ideas. d. A tool to break up labor unions

3. Daily Quiz #1
5. Which profession were immigrants the least likely to be found in? a. Coal Miners b. Meat Packing c. Teachers d. Textile/Garment Industry

4. Plan of the Day 8/29-30 Define Gilded Age Money in America
Ghettos in the Gilded Age
Why?
Social Darwinism
Cultural
Economic

5. Objectives of the Day 8/24-25
SWU and Define the Term Gilded Age.
LANGUAGE: SWU and Define verbally the term Gilded Age.
SWUE the sources and distribution of wealth in America during the Gilded Age.
LANGUAGE: SWUE verbally the sources and distribution of wealth in America during the Gilded Age.
SWUE why there were Ghettos in the Gilded Age.
LANGUAGE: SWUE verbally why there were Ghettos in the Gilded Age.
CRITICAL OBJECTIVE: SWUE and apply the concept of Social Darwinism.
LANGUAGE: SWUE and apply in writing the concept of Social Darwinism.

6. QUOTE OF THE DAY "The golden gleam of the gilded
surface hides the cheapness
of the metal underneath."
Mark Twain-1871

7. Money in America Where did it come from? Who had it?
Who didn’t have it?

8. Where did it come from? Three Eras of 19th Century Wealth
First ( )
Piracy, Plantations, and Profiteers
Second ( )
Land, Plantations, Furs and Trade
Third ( )
Railroads, Fuel and Factories

9. Where did it come from?

10. Who had it?
LARGEST FORTUNE
(Millions)
AVERAGE FAMILY
WEALTH

11. Who didn’t have it?
RATIO OF FORTUNE TO AVERAGE WEALTH

12. Who didn’t have it? The South

13. The Gilded Age First Era of Conspicuous Consumption
Corporate Giants Grew
Middle Class Grew
Social Unrest Grew

14. The Gilded Age
Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before.
In New York, the opera, the theatre, and lavish parties consumed the ruling class' leisure hours.
Sherry's Restaurant hosted formal horseback dinners for the New York Riding Club.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish once threw a dinner party to honor her dog who arrived sporting a $15,000 diamond collar.

15. Gilded Age

16. The Gilded Age’s Poor
In 1890, 11 million of the nation's 12 million families earned less than $1200 per year
The average annual income was $380, well below the poverty line.
Rural Americans and new immigrants crowded into urban areas.
Tenements spread across city landscapes, teeming with crime and filth.
Americans had sewing machines, phonographs, skyscrapers, and even electric lights, yet most people labored in the shadow of poverty.

17. The Gilded Age
In general, an increasing concentration of wealth and power
Business and government became bigger while they became intertwined.
Lasting Results –
The federal government uses its power and money to encourage businessmen to build railroads
All levels of government had become more involved in the nation's economic welfare.

18. Power of Wealth

19. Ghettos in the Gilded Age Why?
Disparity in Wealth
Social Darwinism
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selectionc
Survival of the Fittest
Applied to society
“Protestant Work Ethic”
They are poor so they deserve to be so
“Not my problem”

20. Survival of the Fittest
Social Darwinism
“this law of organic progress is the law of all progress. Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, the development of Society, of Government, ..., this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through a process of continuous differentiation, holds throughout.”
Herbert Spencer philosopher
Survival of the Fittest

21. Cultural Ghettos in the Gilded Age
Immigrant Clusters
Why?
Urban and Rural

22. Economic Ghettos in the Gilded Age
Immigrant Clusters
Low Paid Workers
Everything Into Ticket to US
Exploited – No Voice

23. Life on the Low Side

24. Life on the Low Side

25. Life on the Low Side

26. Life on the Low Side

27. Life on the Low Side

28. Life on the Low Side - Coal

29. Life on the Low Side

30. Life on the Low Side - Coal

31. Life on the Low Side - Coal

32. The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages"
Life on the High Side
The Breakers is the grandest of
Newport's summer "cottages"

33. Life on the High Side

34. Today – The Second Gilded Age?