https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4 en-us 2017-03-15 14:35:50 UTC 2017-03-17 01:12:52 UTC hello@padlet.com johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160266637 Children faced many harsh conditions during the Gilded Age. According to the document we looked at in class, it stated "Tiny babies of six years old with faces of sixty did an eight hour shift for ten cents a day." This shows that the children were very young when they started working. They worked way too long to only get paid  ten cents a day. You can also tell that they work too long at a young age by how it says, "with faces of sixty." When looking at the picture of the two children at the threading station, you can tell  that job wasn't made for children. The children are too short to reach, so they have to stand on the bars. This is very unsafe and unfit for the children with bare feet. Children had to work to earn extra money, and because they needed people to work in those positions.]]> 2017-03-15 14:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160266637 johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160274806 The workers during the Gilded Age did not care what the consumers were eating. The consumers didn't know what was in the food they ate. Stated in the document we looked at in class, "It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together." They were putting all sorts of unsanitary stuff in the meat. The consumers would get sick from eating this stuff. The consumers never would know if they're getting good, safe meat or contaminated, bad meat. ]]> 2017-03-15 15:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160274806 johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160276286 Life was very unfair during the Gilded Age for workers. They got paid very little, and worked in harsh work conditions. During the Homestead strike, it was stated that, "The accident rate in the steel mills at that time was tremendous. Deaths and injuries from explosions, burnings, asphyxiation, electric shocks, falls, crushing, and other causes were frequent." This shows that the working conditions were not good. People risked their lives just to make money. As for immigrants, shown in the video we watched in class about the miners', they also faced very bad working conditions. It is very dangerous to work as a coal miner. They have a chance of being blown up, rocks falling on them, which could even lead to death. Overall, it was dangerous for all workers and immigrants.]]> 2017-03-15 15:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160276286 johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160555394 During the Gilded Age, all men enjoyed to drink. When the men would go to the bars to get whiskey or beer, this would cause them to spend money on that instead of actual needed things. Women and families began to become poor because, their husbands were spending all the money on alcohol. The men got so drunk that the women would even face rape. All of this was discussed and shown in the video we watched in class. This shows how the women were taken advantage of and poorly treated. ]]> 2017-03-16 14:52:08 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160555394 johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160557619 Unions addressed problems just by providing education, social services, and housing to those in need at the time. Referring back to the articles we read in class, the Union helped a lot with trying to make things right. They made sure people new how to do things. They also tried improving the working conditions and the amount of pay for the workers. They even improved the treatments of the workers, no matter who they were.]]> 2017-03-16 14:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160557619 johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160558193 They created settlement houses for the poor workers. They provided social services and education for them. According to the document we read in class, "Approximately half of the major US settlement houses were led and staffed predominantly by women." They were led by women because, at this time women were still excluded from leadership roles in business and government. These settlement houses provided a lot for the new immigrants. They were taught a lot of new things.]]> 2017-03-16 14:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160558193 johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160682466 The Muckrakers exposed all the things that affected the people. Stated in the document we looked at in class, "During the Progressive era, muckrakers came to the forefront of American culture by exposing problems relatively unknown to the general public." The public didn't know what was actually happening. For example, the meat producers put things in the meat that wasn't supposed to be in there. The muckrakers exposed that to the public. ]]> 2017-03-17 00:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160682466 johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160685380 Individuals were even seeking out the problems occurring. Stated in the document we read in class, "Lewis Hine was a photographer who used photographs to raise the public’s awareness of the problems of child labor." Lewis Hine tried to point out the fact that there were actual problems in child labor. "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." Mother Jones solved the problem of child labor. By raising it to the attention of the public and the president, people finally saw the problem and outlawed child labor. Without her, it would have lasted longer or we may even still have it today.]]> 2017-03-17 01:02:29 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160685380 johnsonj28 https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160686162 The historical lesson of the Gilded Age is, that if you believe something isn't right and think it should change, then do whatever you can to prove your point and change it. We see history repeating itself by when people are wanting change, they are starting to bring it up to more educated people to make that change happen. For example, when people are being separated by gender, some people just want to be with their families. This causes people to want to make a change, and be able to have everyone together.]]> 2017-03-17 01:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonj28/1muuthaskgw4/wish/160686162