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America's economy grew by more than 400% between 1860 and 1900. Technological advances, expanding population, financial innovation, and new business practices, combined to fuel this economic growth. "Titans of Industry" like John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P Morgan built monopolies and revolutionized business practices. The owner of the business would have terrible working condition and low pay. If you did not respect the owner or did not like that pay, he would fire you and hire the next person in line.

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Many educated women of the age felt that many of society's greatest disorders was alcohol. According to their view alcohol led to increased domestic violence towards the wives of the house. It decreased the income a family would get because as soon as the men got paid they would head down to the local bar and get drunk. Carry Nation preferred the direct approach of taking an ax into saloons and chopping the bar into pieces.
“I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.” (Carry Nation)

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The settlement house movement began in Britain in 1884 when middle-class london reformers established Toynbee Hall, the first settlement house, In East London to provide social services and education to the poor workers who lived there.
The major purpose of settlement houses was  to help assimilate and ease the transition of the immigrants into the labor force by teaching them middle-class american values.
Hull-house also provided social services to reduce the effects of poverty.

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The progressive era was an era of social and political reform. During the progressive era there was corruption in the government. Muckrakers wanted to expose and reform the government. Lincoln Steffens wanted to expose the bribery and corruption in the government. The government also take advantage of the average people. "Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it." (Lincoln Steffens) That's is why he investigated people in power.

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"Coal was the engine of American industrial progress at the beginning of the 20th century. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent 10 to 12 hours a day in coal mines, and southern West Virginia's coal industry was growing rapidly." https://goo.gl/U5CkIe

In the first two decades of the 20th century, coal companies and their workers in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over labor conditions and unionization that resulted in the "Mine Wars"

Miners were also denied their proper pay through a system known as cribbing. Workers were paid based on tons of coal mined. If they brought a cart of 2,500 pounds of coal they would actually only get paid for the 2,000 pounds of coal.

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Businesses hire children because they were a cheap source of child labor. Most of the machinery children work with also needed constant cleaning. That was one of the children's job to clean the machines, that usually ended up with getting a finger crushed or snapped off.The working conditions for children were very poor, they had to walk around bare foot and children to the age of 6 years old or older usually face up to an 8 hour shift for ten cents a day.

(Child Labor Scenario Document).

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Mark Twain called the late 19th century the, "Gilded Age." It meant that the period was glittering on top and corrupted underneath. During the years of the Gilded Age, America's economy did grow at an extraordinary rate, generating unexpected  levels of wealth.