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Gilded Egg Gilded Age 1850-1920 Is it all about the Benjamins ($)? Big Idea: Bittersweet

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Simple Gilded Age presentation I used with my U.S. History class. I tried to give credit where credit was due.

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Gilded Egg

Gilded Age1850-1920

Is it all about the Benjamins ($)?

Big Idea: Bittersweet

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1) Business was changing during the Gilded Age.- Compare the "Robber Barons“ or “Captains of Industry” to business people today. - Were these people “Robber Barons” or "Captains of Industry" or would you call them something else?- Explain your answer. Be specific.

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2) Poverty was a part of life and the Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism tried to explain it.

- Do you believe that people's attitudes toward the poor have changed or remained the same? Why or why not?

- Are these beliefs true in your opinion?

- Be sure to provide examples & be specific.

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3) Bittersweet is the BIG IDEA for the Gilded Age.

- Why does the word Bittersweet fit the Gilded Age?

- If you could give the Gilded Age a theme other than Bittersweet, what would you call it?

- Be sure to provide examples and BE SPECIFIC.

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4) People started to stand up for themselves during the Gilded Age.- Can you predict the outcome if people didn’t start to stand up for themselves?- Should labor unions play as big a part today as they did back then? Why or why not?- Explain and BE SPECIFIC

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Greed is Good

•Is what he talks about true? –Is greed good?–Why or why not?

•What are the goals of his corporation?

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Transforming AmericaWhat does this mean?I. Industry1) Railroads

- 1890: Were making twice as much as the government

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Unites the U.S.

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Railroads U.S. Government

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2) Steel- Lots of resources- Quick steel

making processwas invented making steel cheaper to produce

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3) Oil- Drilling for oil waseasier and it was becoming a useful product

How would these industries change the U.S.? Ex. of each

How have these impacted your life?

II. Big Business1) “Robber Barons” or

“Captains of Industry”

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- Cornelius William Vanderbilt

- Andrew Carnegie- John D. Rockefeller

“Captain of Industry” or “Robber Baron” Why?

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- It’s OK to be a Robber Baron.- Robber Barons are good for

society.

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2) 1859 – 1899 (U.S.)- Manufactured product

value up 622% a) $1.8 billion - $13

billion3) Who do you trust?

- What is a trust?

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Different business trustees

Bob’s Oil

Jen’sOil

Spike’sOil

Anna’sOil

StocksMoney

Business owners

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•Are these businesses competing against each other?

•What is going to happen?•Why might/should this be illegal?

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- Vertical Integrationa) the process of buying

out suppliers and distributorsex. Buying a tire factory because we make cars

- Horizontal Integrationa) the process of buying

out competitorsex. A hot dog vender who starts selling hamburgers

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•Show some examples of vertical integration and horizontal integration.–Diagram, act out, something!!–What are some examples in the world today?

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4) Gospel of WealthIf you’re rich what do you do with all the money?

- Make sure the money is put to good use

- The rich are superior humans, God gave the rich the money

Can the poor have the money? Why or why not?

- The poor make poor decisions and therefore shouldn’t have themoney

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5) Social Darwinism - Reading, Notes over the

reading- Definition

How is the Gospel of Wealth similar to Social Darwinism?

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6) Government InvolvementWhat do you think?How much should the

gov’t be involved in the economy?

- Laissez-faire – “let do” gov’t not involved- People wanted the gov’t

to fix economic and societal problems

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- Sherman Anti-Trust Acta) No more trusts

(monopolies) - Federal Trade

Commissiona) Keep business

competition free and fair

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IV. Labor movement 1) Workers weren’t exactly treated

well - Used the working class - Eliminated competition, supply

went down- Cheap labor ($8-12/week)- 12-14 hour days, 6-7 days/week- Accidents were plentiful

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Work Wages JobsChildren Start

at age 10

30% of what men make

Factories NewsiesUnskilled labor

Women All women work

50% of what men make

Factories

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•What does immigration have to do with this?

•Likert Scale–Immigration helped this country.–Immigration could help our country now.–Workers are treated better today.

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Little girl who had forgotten how old she was.

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Furman Owens, 12 years old. Can't read. Doesn't know his A,B,C's. Said, "Yes I want to learn but can't when I work all the time." Been in the mills 4 years, 3 years in the Olympia Mill. Columbia, S.C.

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What is the message of this cartoon?How does it fit today?

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2) “We’re Not Gonna Take It!!”

- Workers decided they had rights

- Labor unions are an organization of workers who want to improve status

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•What/Who are these?–strikes–Samuel Gompers–Haymarket–Mother Jones–Industrial Workers of the World–Eugene Debs

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What to do?

- Reword the song- Draw a picture that represents the song- Write a paragraph about how the song represents this period

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•Students will be divided into groups:

(1) lower class workers requesting higher wages (2) barons of industry (3) a group of concerned citizens that feel threatened by immigrants coming into American.

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V. Populist Movement- Farmers weren’t happy- Wages were high and imports were expensive- Formed the Populist party

a) Wanted gov’t ownership of all railroads

b) Election reformc) Free silver

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•shamrag.blogspot.com/.../last-day-of-year.html

•www.yousephtanha.com/blog/category/transformers/

•www.simpsonstrivia.com.ar/superman-picture.htm

•http://amhist.ist.unomaha.edu/module_files/Iron,%20Steel%20and%20Coal%20Production.bmp

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•http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_Articles/carnegie/delong_moscow_paper2.html