https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe Made with ♥ en-us 2017-03-15 14:32:45 UTC 2025-04-28 16:04:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160266236 Children probably got the worst of the Gilded Age. With little to no pay the children worked in factories. Factories where the machines could kill you in an instant if you weren't careful. The bosses got the most work they could out of the children. One man said "I regard my people as I regard my machinery. So long as they do my work for what I choose to pay them, I keep them, getting out of them all I can. What they do or how they fare outside my walls I don’t know, nor do I consider it my business to know. They must look out for themselves as I do for myself."  Showing almost no care besides them working. Children would come home and go to work with diseases, spreading it through the workplace. Decreasing production. If a child was too sick to work, they would be fired and replaced.

]]> 2017-03-15 14:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160266236 bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160272622 During the Gilded Age there was many controversies about skilled and unskilled workers. Skilled workers were more valuable and were paid more, while unskilled workers could work a day, get fired and replaced within the hour. Also, unskilled workers were paid a lot less. Andrew Carnegie was a steel mill owner and hated the union and the fact that the skilled workers were in it. Carnegie's plan was to bring in new machines to increase product. These machines would be built by the skilled workers and easy to use, so therefore after they were built, Carnegie would only need unskilled workers to operate. Thus, injuring the Union greatly. The skilled workers went on strike. Trying their hardest to get the unskilled workers to join to keep the mill from running. The unskilled workers joined and forced a mass strike, causing production to slow to a stop.]]> 2017-03-15 14:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160272622 bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160542993 The Gilded Age and Progressive era taught us a lot.  Child labor was wrong and too hard on children at such a young age. The Union was formed to protect workers from their employers from taking advantage of them. Prohibition taught us that you can't keep alcohol from Americans unless you want crime. The horrific past of America helped us learn and shape what America is today.]]> 2017-03-16 14:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160542993 bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160550793 At the start of the Prohibition era, women were at home alone taking care of their children. While their husbands were on their way home from work, only to stop at the local bar and have a few drinks. Then the husbands show up drunk, just another normal night. The women were angry with this. They pushed against alcohol consumption. Ending up outlawing alcohol with the Prohibition. Prohibition did last a while but it was eventually defeated by the "wets." Prohibition failed because it was very badly enforced. Nice, innocent Americans became famous criminals smuggling alcohol and fighting other gangs for the drinks. Others just made their own, or at least tried to make their own out of common liquids. Ultimately the "wets" were too hard to fight, but the "drys" could've put up a better fight.]]> 2017-03-16 14:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160550793 bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160811120 This photo shows what young boys had to do for very little pay. They would go down into mines, where the oxygen levels are very low risk their lives.]]> 2017-03-17 14:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160811120 bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160812010 During the strike against Carnegie, armed men had to be brought in to keep the fighting at bay.]]> 2017-03-17 14:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160812010 bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160813582 In this edition of The American Issue, the paper shows the start of the Prohibition when the 18th Amendment was ratified.]]> 2017-03-17 14:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160813582 bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160815996 In the back streets of New York, living was tough. There wasn't enough food, no heat or air conditioning, terrible sanitary conditions, and no running water. Jacob Riis, an immigrant, went into investigative journalism and explored those very streets. His main purpose was to expose what the city doesn't want anyone to see. Jacob changed every decision involving sanitation in New York.]]> 2017-03-17 14:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160815996 bergmanb https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160819880 This photo, taken by Jacob Riis, exposes the terrible living conditions the poor had to live in. He changed everything.]]> 2017-03-17 15:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bergmanb/f8as4bm1otfe/wish/160819880