https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9 en-us 2017-03-14 13:21:00 UTC 2026-02-19 22:16:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Folder.png hooksteadmontielr https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/159969501 The Gilded Age, which was named by a man named Mark Twain, happened throughout the 19th century. This era is commonly told as a time of corruption, conspicuous, consumption, and unfettered capitalism. ]]> 2017-03-14 13:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/159969501 hooksteadmontielr https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/160232537 2017-03-15 12:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/160232537 hooksteadmontielr https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/160232658 During the Gilded Age many families were not able to make enough money for them to be able to support everyone in there household, so parents would sent their children to work. Most times the jobs were highly dangerous and they were working in horrible conditions as well. ]]> 2017-03-15 12:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/160232658 hooksteadmontielr https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/160234375 This is one of the examples of a child having to work in a very dangerous environment, one mess up and he could possible get seriously injured or died. The children who did this work were not being treated as human beings either. They were looked as just people who made money for those with higher power. ]]> 2017-03-15 13:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/160234375 hooksteadmontielr https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/160235890 This strike took place in 1892. The strike was to propose that iron and steel workers, most of them being immigrants/unskilled workers, were not being paid enough for the long and harsh jobs they were doing. When the strike had began the unskilled workers had battled with the union. In all, nine strikers and seven Pinkertons were killed; many strikers and Pinkertons were injurered, some serious. ]]> 2017-03-15 13:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hooksteadmontielr/7i6lmsy9dyn9/wish/160235890