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We can learn from the Gilded Age that we need laws in America. We need laws to keep things under some control so everything doesn't go completely wrong. It also taught us to not believe what you see because during the Gilded Age it looked like everything was turning around and going to end up good when underneath the society was not doing as well as it looked like it was.

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How did different groups help these causes through progressivism?

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How did different groups help these causes through progressivism?

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Unions-
One group that had helped was the union groups.  These Union groups were made up of workers, skilled and unskilled, they formed these groups because they felt that the working conditions should be better and they should all get paid more. Eventually they became successful in getting the owners to raise the pay and provide better, safer working conditions for the workers.

Reformers-
Reformers were a group of people who built houses that provided the people with social services too. They had first set these up to help immigrants started in America with a little bit of help until they were successful enough on their own.

Muckrakers-
Muckrakers were people who would go and expose the bad in businesses or just anything in the world that was bad. They would expose problems to the public that they didn't know about. Some people wrote books or articles to expose this information, others would go undercover and get information from the inside and then expose it all. Many of these people were successful and helped get laws passed to change such bad things.

Individuals-
Normal people who wanted to help with the cause would also join in and help in their own ways. For example Mother Jones went and held her own rallies and speeches to get the public's help on child labor.

Sources:
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/settlement.html
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kMaBnLiWmidwOmv5ZzIlvuM4TY--8zv_LXoYsB9EDrQ/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgVDdov235fckoOt1j23W8HulQMWEnn595I2BYDkwWk/edit

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The gilded age was a time in the U.S. when for many people the country looked like it was doing really well. It looked like it was going in the right direction and was making lots of new progress when really it was not going as well as it seemed. Corruption, and conspicuous consumption were happening under all of what seemed to be good.

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Women were losing lots of money during this time and were becoming unable to afford things for their family. During this time saloons were very popular so many of the men would go out to drink almost everyday if not everyday. Because the men would do this so often they would spend great amounts of their money at the saloons for beer and whatever else they were getting there. By the time they would get home to their families they would be so drunk that some of them would even be abusive. They would also come home with even less money which made it very hard for the women to go out and buy food, clothes, etc. for the family.

Many women got tired of this happening so they started to boycott against saloons. They had groups that tried to work towards shutting down all the saloons and making alcohol illegal. Eventually it happened, alcohol was finally made illegal and saloons all over were shut down.

Sources:
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/

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When immigrants had first come to America many of them could not speak English. Since they couldn't speak English it was hard for them to get jobs so lots of them had ended up with very dangerous jobs that no one else wanted. They mainly got put into coal mines, no one wanted to work as a coal miner since the job was so dangerous. People could die from bad air, an explosion, fallings rocks, even if the mine collapsed and caved in on top of them while being in there. They would get paid very low wages so they couldn't even afford a good place to live, they had to live in tenements which were made for one person but instead they would have to fit their whole family in that one room.

Sources:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/theminewars/

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Many workers in the mills at Homestead were unskilled since lots of them were immigrants who had just came to the U.S. They were paid very low wages compared to all the hours they had to work. Death rates in these places were very high.

The skilled workers felt that they were better than the unskilled so they never tried to talk to them and they kept their distance from them. They're houses were even in separate places. The skilled workers acted as the bosses in these work places and told the unskilled what to do.

The workers houses were owned by the company owners so if you lost your job then you also lost a place to live. And it was hard for immigrants to get other jobs since most did not speak English.

Later workers had teamed up together for the Homestead Strike. It was against the mill companies to try and get better working conditions and more pay. To try and make things more even between the skilled and unskilled workers.

Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JsHyzx3NytcNkirKRHITUgT34rTSVnXqMgHhOjcVOts/edit

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Workers at meat stores never really cared a lot about how well they packaged and cleaned the meat, they just wanted to get it done as fast as they could. Lots of the meat that got packaged was sold with disease in it or very dirty. Because the workers didn't always take time in cleaning the meat well the consumers who bought it would get very sick. Instead of having the company get in trouble for it the company owner would fire the person in charge of that meat selection, or take money off of their paycheck.

Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hDSvwkMe-BGbVlzNzQUUr-CeCTDgPYg6u2XjBEvQD4/edit

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During the Gilded Age many children were put to work in very unsafe factories. They would work long hours every day and get paid only around 10 cents in a day. They would have to work in factories with no safety precautions. They would have to crawl under machines, stand over machines while they're running, and replace spindles all day long. While crawling around the machines as they were working many children would lose a finger or get their hand crushed. "I regard my people as I regard my machinery. So long as they do my work for what I choose to pay them, I keep them, getting out of them all I can. What they do or how they fare outside my walls I don’t know, nor do I consider it my business to know. They must look out for themselves as I do for myself",  this shows that the owners didn't even really care what happened to the children, and they relied on them looking out for themselves.

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wzoOWjMO8yeau2GiEbC6AX3XldoqDt_hrbC7_Z1QRKg/edit