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Unions were both a good and bad thing, it gave the workers some control yet it costed many lives. For example the coal miners union, many of the miners died in the fight. One of the top leaders of the West Virginia Mine Wars was Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.

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Reformers helped a lot of people, they made many settlement houses for immigrants, the poor and for education. "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."-harvard.edu Reformers provided a restart for many people.

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I think that the historical lesson from the gilded age is even though we were at the top of production, we were not considering basic human rights and needs. I think in the future we can improve by taking those into consideration first.

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During Prohibition women were one of the top supporters. Women were at the forefront of the destructiveness of alcohol. Husbands would come home drunk. Because of Saloons men would burn off their paychecks and it would affect their whole family. "Protestant women spoke out on the blight of liquor: drink, they said, was the supreme threat to the happy home, because the saloon lured men away from it and too often made them abusive toward their wives and children on their return." - independent.org I think that the wives would be fine with saloons if the men did not stay as long or come home drunk. During the Gilded age women were not treated fairly. They were not paid as much, and factory owners would take extra precaution to ensure that the women workers would not steal. For example in the triangle shirtwaist factory, the women had to have their bags checked before they left.

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Immigrants in the Gilded age had come to start a better life for themselves and their families. Instead they were mostly working in the coal mines. Coal miners weren't paid well and were is very dangerous conditions, and the coal mine communities were fully controlled by the coal mine owners. Since the communities were run by the coal mine owners, the workers pay went right back to the owners in a vicious cycle.

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Muckrakers were determined to get in and find the issues in every situation. They had very dangerous jobs, and had to go undercover to find the truth to expose to the public. Upton Sinclair went undercover into the Chicago meat packing plant to exposed what was happening. "The Jungle, for example, horrified so many people, including President Roosevelt, that laws were passed in an attempt to regulate the meatpacking industry."- Explore Muckraking Document

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Child Labor went on during the Gilded age. These children were robbed of their childhood. Instead of being in school and playing games, these kids were crawling around sharp dangerous machines and equipment. "Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair the snapped threads. They crawled under machinery to oil it. They replaced spindles all day long [and all] night through. Tiny babies of six years old with faces of sixty did an eight hour shift for ten cents a day." - Child Labor Scenario Document. With child labor, these kids weren't just robbed from their time but of their education and their safety. The factories who hired them used them for clean and other dangerous activities using their slender hands and bodies. "This factory was run also by child labor. The machinery needed constant cleaning. The tiny, slender bodies of the little children crawled in and about under dangerous machinery, oiling and cleaning. Often their hands were crushed. A finger was snapped off."- Child Labor Scenario Document.