1. Results of the Gilded Age and Industrialization 1870-1900

2. 1. What do you see?

3. 2. Gilded means to cover something of poor quality with gold
Mark Twain
2. Gilded means to cover something of poor quality with gold
What does this imply (suggest) about American society?

4. What was the “Gilded Age?”
Result of the Industrial Revolution in America.
A small amount of people “Robber Barons” became very rich.
Most others worked and had very little.
The government allowed businesses control the economy
From the outside things looked great, but were they?

5. The Gilded Age: Good and Bad!
Results: Wealth and economic growth covered up the many problems that existed
The Gilded Age: Good and Bad!
Negatives
Working Conditions
Poverty and Living Conditions in Cities
Gap between Rich and Poor Increases
Farmers Struggle
Political Corruption
Treatment of Minorities
Positives
Industrialization
Economic Growth
New Inventions
Growth of Middle Class and Suburbs
Manifest Destiny: more growth to the west

6. 3. What best describes the “Gilded Age?
A time when Americans made a lot of money and the economy boomed.
A period of great depression
The time of the progressives
A time when a few people became very rich and many others struggled

7. 4. Identify a trait of the “Gilded Age”
Middle class people began to move into the cities
Immigration, urbanization and poverty increased
Many people moved to the country form farming jobs
Wealth was evenly distributed

8. 5. What problems were created by the Industrial Revolution
5. What problems were created by the Industrial Revolution? Use the Chapter 21 Reading

9. Result of the Industrial Revolution: New Class System
Carnegie Mansion
Nouveau Riche (French for new rich)
Middle Class: many began to move out to the suburbs to avoid city problems.
Working class
Poor white immigrants
African Americans

10. The Shift to the City
Result 2: Urbanization- process in which an increasing proportion of a population (more and more people) lives in cities or suburbs of cities

11. Urbanization – Why? Industrialization = more jobs.
Immigration: conditions in Eastern Europe and Italy led to new waves of immigrants to the US.
Inventions on farms meant less work in the country
African Americans began to leave the South for new opportunities

12. How did the other half live?
The cities and the “Lower Class”

13. Most poor people lived in…..

14. Tenements
Rundown apartments used to house large numbers of low-income families.

15. 6. What was a result of the Industrial Revolution?
There was a new class system in the United States
Average income increased for most Americans
Immigration decreased
All of the above

16. 7. Where did most poor people and immigrants live?
Suburbs
New homes
Tenements
Rural areas

17. 8. Why did urbanization occur?
Immigration
Industrialization
Great Migration of African Americans
All of the above

18. URBANIZATION = PROBLEMS
Harper’s Weekly image of Chicagoans fleeing the fire over the Randolph Street bridge in 1871

19. Problems in Cities Housing shortages- Tenements
Transportation –struggled to keep up with growth
Clean water – was difficult to produce and transport
Pollution because of the factories
Waste and garbage no removal plan
Fires were very common
Great Chicago Fire -1871
San Francisco Earthquake 1906
Crime rose with urbanization
Self segregation
Political corruption
A trip down Market Street video

20. 9. Use the Chapter 21 Reading
How did people try to help people in cities and fix problems during this time?

21. Early Reforms to fix problems of Urbanization
Settlement House –Community center organized to provide various services to urban poor
Hull House – most famous settlement house established by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr
Social Gospel Movement –social reform movement that sought to fix social problems in the name of Jesus

22. 10. Identify a problem people in cities faced.
Crime numbers fell
Safety, sanitation and waste
Industrialization
Integration

23. 11. How did people attempt to help the poor during this time?
The Social Gospel inspired people to help the poor
The Progressives demanded reform
The rich gave billions to rebuild the inner city
All of the above