https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d en-us 2017-03-14 13:22:55 UTC 2024-11-21 22:06:36 UTC hello@padlet.com harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160000597 During the gilded age children were brought into the factories, and they would be put into dangerous situations that would often result in injuries. “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.” And this tells us that the children were being exploited by the business owners. Children could be working long hours that are being determined by the factory owners. And with the children working in the factories they are now losing their childhood. 

]]> 2017-03-14 14:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160000597 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160031206 The people who owned the big companies really only thought of themselves, and not of how the customers are going to be effected. The business owners, like Rockefeller, used secret rebates to drive his competitors out of the business. The leaders of the Erie Railroad's got the legislators to allow them to print more stock, and by doing this they were able to drive down the stock value of their competitors. For example Jay Gould did this and drove down the stocks for the U.S. Express, and made roughly 3 million dollars. He then bought most of the shares, and then decided to renew the contract which made the stock increase again. And then he sold the stock for the full price of $60 instead of the $16 that he bought it for. So he made a whole bunch of money off of illegal deals and shady business deals. 

]]> 2017-03-14 16:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160031206 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160233413 The people who worked in the factories would have little to no rights, because at this time unions weren’t around a lot. And so the workers were vulnerable to whatever the employer would give them, whether it would be how much they were paid, or how many hours they worked in a week. Some of the companies would give their workers houses that they would pay rent on, and that rent amount would come out of their paycheck and the worker would never even see that money. The miners in West Virginia were given housing, and a store that would be their only way to buy things, and the miners would be paid in the town dollars that would only work at the stores in the mining towns. And these mining towns were where they lived, and were walking distance to the mines where they worked. The miners would buy houses, and then the company would have even more control over their workers, because this way if they try to go on strike, they could just evict them from their houses, and then they would have nowhere to go. Over time the working conditions got better, and that was through mostly strikes.]]> 2017-03-15 13:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160233413 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160234186 2017-03-15 13:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160234186 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160237545 During this time with America becoming an industrial powerhouse, people from all over the world were coming to America for work, or for the opportunity to start over in a new country. Immigrants would get the jobs in the factories that no one else wanted, so they were able to find work most of the time, and now with more people coming into the country, there was a greater threat of losing your job if you try to change things. Because there were a lot of other people that were ready and willing to take your place. 

]]> 2017-03-15 13:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160237545 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160303691 The prohibition was when alcohol was illegal, and they did this because the men would take their paychecks right to a salon or pub and spend it all on liquor and they would then have nothing to bring home to their families to get them through the week. So a big supportive group of prohibition was women because they didn’t want their husbands to go and spend all the money on beer. Women’s rights got kind of pushed to the side while this was going on because it was more of the upfront issue.  ]]> 2017-03-15 16:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160303691 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160591262 Unions were a big reason why the workers got more rights, and got most of the new things that they got that they hadn’t had before. During the Homestead strike there were strike breakers that were brought in so that the strike would end without Carnegie having to follow the demands of the workers. The strike there had failed because Carnegie had a large amount of steel mills, so he could just move some of the employees around and the strike was broken when they ran out of money. And as a result to punish the workers they were given less rights, “At Homestead, wages were cut, hours were increased, and the number of workers employed was drastically reduced.” 

]]> 2017-03-16 16:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160591262 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160592277 2017-03-16 16:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160592277 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160594008 Settlement houses were created to help the immigrants that were coming to America, and at one of the houses the immigrants could learn English, there were people to look after their children while they were at work, and taught them history. Some people saw them as condescending, but I think that the people who worked there genuinely wanted to help the immigrants fit into society better.]]> 2017-03-16 16:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160594008 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160596479 Nellie Bly was a journalist, and she went into a madhouse and pretended to be insane so that she could see how the mentally unstable were being treated. She found out that they weren’t actually receiving proper medical help, and they were really just being beaten and teased. She wrote a book about her experiences inside the madhouse, and there was a large reaction to her book. All the mental institutions would then undergo an investigation, and there would be new laws put into place so that the conditions would be improved. 

]]> 2017-03-16 16:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160596479 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160597443 2017-03-16 16:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160597443 harknessj3 https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160601913 From the progressive era we can make connections to today because there are still injustices that people face around the world and still right here in America. But we learn about history so that we don’t make the same mistakes as the people of the past did. History is teaching us not to take advantage of others just because they don’t have as much money or power as we do. Gilded refers to a cheap metal covered in a gold covering, so it’s really getting at the idea that what seems good on the outside is really just bad on the inside. Because when people think of that time period it’s more of the industrial revolution, but what they don’t know is what happened for the big guys at the top to get there. Because they were taking advantage of those below them to rise up to the top. And that’s when the great things, like unions and muckrakers, came along and helped to change things so that the little guys weren’t being stepped on and squished into the mud. And I think that’s really what is so great about our country, we were increasing our diversity because of all the new job opportunities. And we were banning together to make everyone's lives better at their jobs, so all in all it turned out way better then it started and that’s what really matters. ]]> 2017-03-16 17:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/harknessj3/w8zsl5ac793d/wish/160601913