The Gilded Age and Industrialization

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The Gilded AgeandIndustrialization
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Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction Harpers
Weekly, March 17, 1877
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Colonel
Agramontes Cavalry Charging on the Mob, at the
Halstead street Viaduct, in Chicago, July 16,
Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper, August 11,
1877
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Major railroads in 1880 with time zones
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Population growth Great Railway Station at
Chicago--Departure of a Train, Appletons
Journal, 1870 supplement
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Government support Land grants to the railroads
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Invention Thomas Edison with the light bulb,
invented in 1879
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National markets The first national brand,
Uneeda Biscuit (1898, ad from 1900)
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Sears and Roebuck Catalog, 1900
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Gilded Age Who coined the term?
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Mark Twain
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Capital The race is on "Admiral" Jim Fisk of
the ERIE vs. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt New
York Central Lines.
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Labor The Celebration of the Meeting of the
Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads at
Promontory Point, Utah, May 10, 1869.
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A. J. Russell, Chinese at Laying Last Rail
UPRR, stereoview
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John D. Rockefeller, Portrait by John Singer
Sargent, 1917
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Corporations had the same rights as persons
The 14th amendment Section. 1. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States nor shall any State deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws. US Supreme Court, 1886, Santa Clara
County vs. Southern Pacific RR co. The
defendant Corporations are persons within the
intent of the clause in section 1 of the Fourteen
Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, which forbids a State to deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.
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Next! Cartoon in Puck, September 7, 1904
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Henry Adams Criticized Corporations in His
Autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams,
1918
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Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species
(1859)
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Herbert Spencer, author of social Darwinist
doctrines of survival of the fittest and
laissez faire
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Skull Types
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Andrew Carnegie, Scottish immigrant who built a
vertically integrated steel company that
dominated the steel industry in the laste 19th
century
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Horatio Alger books promoted rags to riches
stories
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Conspicuous Display of Wealth, Millionaires Row,
New York
Carnegie Mansion
Vanderbilt Chateau
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Jacob Riis, Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street, c.
1889
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Driving the Rioters from Turner Hall, Harpers
Weekly, August 18, 1877
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The Haymarket Riot, Harpers Weekly, May 15,
1886
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The Haymarket Martyrs, Anarchy and Anarchists,
1889
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The First Dynamite Bomb Thrown in America,
Chicago Inter-Ocean Supplement, 1886
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Pin Protesting the Executions, Inscribed Nov.
11, 1887
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Justice Hurling a Bomb, Graphic News, June 5,
1886
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The Pullman Strike, 1893-1894
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John D. Rockefeller Founds a Day Nursery for
Children of Working Italian Women, 1895
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U.S. Presidents, 1877-Present
Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881 James Garfield,
1881 Chester Arthur, 1881-1885 Grover Cleveland,
1885-1889 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1993 Grover
Cleveland, 1993-1997 William McKinley,
1897-1901 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 William
H. Taft, 1909-1913 Woodrow Wilson,
1913-1921 Warren Harding, 1921-1923 Calvin
Coolidge, 1923-1929 Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 Harry Truman,
1945-1953 Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-1961 John F.
Kennedy, 1961-1963 Lyndon Johnson,
1963-1969 Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 Gerald Ford,
1974-77 Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 Ronald Reagan,
1981-1989 George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993 William J.
Clinton, 1993-2001 George W. Bush, 2001-present