Title: Gilded Age and Progressive Era Project
1Gilded Age and Progressive Era Project
2Below is a good video clip on coal miners strike
http//www.britannica.com/nobelprize/art-68532
3 Growth of industry and wealth in a capitalist
economy
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6Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1911
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8Election Reforms
Australian Ballot- Direct Primary- Direct
election of Senators (17th)- Recall-
Initiative- referendum-
9Courts and Labor
Lochner v. New York
Muller v. Oregon-
10TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
CARRY NATION-
WCTU 18TH AMENDMENT
11TERMS Capitalism
12Big Business
Big Business
13TERMS Monopoly Trust Protective
Tariffs
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15Excerpt pg. 269
16RESULTING PROBLEMS
- Unfair wages
- Poor working conditions
- Long work hours
- Child Labor
- Unfair pricing / business practices making it
hard to compete - High tariffs, costs passed on to public
- Hazardous products sold to public
- Little to no regulation
- Farmers pay high freight and land taxes
17Exploding s of Immigrants
18Where were they coming from?
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20Corrupt City Governments
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- TERMS
- Boss-
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- Political Machine-
- Boss Tweed-
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21RESULTING PROBLEMS
- Immigrants easily convinced to return corrupt
politicians to office - Bribery and other forms of election fraud assure
the most corrupt power - Graft lined pockets of the corrupt instead of
being used to meet expanding cities needs - Practice of awarding jobs to supporters (spoils
system) resulted in unqualified political leaders - Government (all levels) unresponsive to needs of
rapidly changing society
22Problems experienced by women and minorities
- Women not allowed the right to vote (suffrage)
- Women denied access to male-dominated professions
- Women victimized by high rates of alcohol abuse ?
believed to disrupt the family and led to crime
and poverty - Increased discrimination and racial segregation
throughout country
23Corrupt National Governments
Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 Spoils
System- Garfields assassination 1881