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It was when all  industries produced a lot of wealth for a number of businessmen like John D. Rockefeller (in oil) and Andrew Carnegie (in steel), known as robber barons (people who got rich through ruthless business deals). The Gilded Age gets its name from the many great fortunes created during this period and the way of life this wealth supported.  During the Gilded Age, it had major problems that affected children, consumers,  workers,  immigrants, and women.

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"You know that children have always worked on farms alongside their parents. But factory labor is different: Children work long hours, determined by factory owners, rather than their parents. Children also work away from home and often get injured".  This an important quote from document "Child Labor 1900" because it clearly shows as young five or six year old kids were going to hard labor jobs that could potentially get them injured. Also they worked long hours.

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Unions like the WCTU who were against alcohol, went on to strike and other various other tactics that attempted to get rid of alcohol for good. "The WCTU was organized by women who were concerned about the destructive power of alcohol and the problems it was causing their families and society.  They met in churches to pray and then marched to the saloons to ask the owners to close their establishments.These activities are often referred to as the "Women's Crusades" and their success was both the forerunner and impetus for the founding of the WCTU".
https://www.wctu.org/

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Historical Lessons of the Gilded Age and Progressivism

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Historical Lessons of the Gilded Age and Progressivism

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"The Gilded Age unit highlights the turbulent changes that characterized the end of the nineteenth century.  Students investigate the rise and fall of the Populist movement, the textbook's account of the Battle of Little Bighorn, the lead-up to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, and the historic labor clashes surrounding Homestead, Haymarket, and Pullman.  Three lessons--Populism and the Election of 1896, the Homestead Strike, and the Pullman Strike--help students develop the skill of close reading as they carefully go though documents and interpret the authors' rhetorical choices". "This unit explores perspectives on the central issues of the Progressive Era. Students examine the middle class reformers' attitudes towards immigrants; draw inferences about historical context by analyzing documents that relate to segregation of San Francisco schools in 1906; and question the reliability of Jacob Riis's photographs as accounts of the past. The unit includes cognitive modeling lessons: one compares the perspectives of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Dubois, and another juxtaposes muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens with political boss George Plunkitt. The Background on Woman Suffrage lesson prepares students for the Anti-Suffragists lesson plan on why Americans opposed woman suffrage". https://sheg.stanford.edu/progressivism

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Is to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics. Muckraking helped problems through Progressivism, because reporter like Bly could seek out information to the public that nobody would know. Reporters did this so hopefully there will be a change in history. "Her report of the cruelty prompted public and political action, which led to reform of the institution.  She wrote about this experience in her first book, Ten Days in a Madhouse (1887). This type of reporting was new and some of her peers referred to it as “stunt reporting.”  Today, however, we call it “investigative journalism,” and it is a justifiably proud tradition.  For the next two years, Bly continued to work undercover to expose injustices. Among her exploits, she arranged to be thrown into jail to expose the treatment of female inmates and worked in a sweatshop to write a story about the poor treatment of the workers".

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"Mother Jones (pictured below) held rallies and speeches to bring the problems of child labor to the attention to the American public" and "Mother Jones also held a dramatic march by mill children in 1903. They marched about 125 miles over the course of 20 days in order to see President Roosevelt. The President didn’t meet with them, but news coverage of the march increased awareness of the problem of child labor. In the years after the march, many states passed laws that outlawed child labor (some states had had child labor laws before the march".)

Child Labor--1900 Outcomes. I picked these sections of the source because Mother Jones is a perfect example of someone who stood up for what they thought was right, because of how to it effected them and their life.

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How did unions, reformers, muckrakers, and individuals seek to address these problems through Progressivism

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How did unions, reformers, muckrakers, and individuals seek to address these problems through Progressivism

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Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America

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During this period, it was common for woman to work. But the woman who were the ones working were immigrants, so they could support their families. My NHD project was on a lady named Clara Lemlich who was a Jewish Immigrant from Russia and had a really large impact on labor laws. "Like many Jewish and Italian immigrant laborers, Lemlich joined the textile-manufacturing workforce only two weeks after arriving in New York. At the Gotham shirtwaist factory, women worked 11 hours a day, six days a week, for starting wages of $3 a week -- conditions that reduced workers "to the status of machines," wrote 17-year-old Lemlich. Appalled by these circumstances, Lemlich joined the executive board of a local chapter of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), a relatively new organization gaining momentum in the fight for workers' rights. In that role, Lemlich led picket lines, wrote opinion pieces, and organized strikes to improve factory conditions. Lemlich and her supporters were often physically harmed by policemen and thugs hired by factory owners. In one case Lemlich was hospitalized after a beating she received while standing in the picket line". http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/triangle-lemlich/

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The workers faced terrible working conditions this source will help support that claim, "Deaths and injuries from explosions, burning, asphyxiation, electric shocks, falls, crushing, and other causes were frequent. Although skilled and unskilled workers lived in different neighborhoods, their houses were often owned by the company. People who opposed management could be evicted without warning. Losing one’s job automatically meant losing one’s home.

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What Actually Happened: John D. Rockefeller demanded and got the secret rebates, then used them to drive out almost all his competitors from the oil-refining business.