Friday, June 19, 2009
Day 1 - The Gilded Age
What is a Gilded Age? Did America have a Golden Age or a Gilded Age? In this era the US saw the rise of industry and big business and the rise of labor unions. Discuss the relationship between the captains of industry and big business and labor unions. Be sure to touch upon the 4 most violent strikes that occurred during this period. Provide evidence to support your answer.
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they had a golden age
ReplyDeleteThe Great Rail Strike of (1877)
The Haymarket Square Riot (1886)
The Homestead Steel Works Strike (1892)
The Pullman Railroad Strike (1894)
james mccabe
A Gilded age is talking about the wealth and population of America.
ReplyDeleteAlso America had a gilded age.
The four strikes are Pullman Strike, Homestead Strike, Haymarket Riot, and The Great Strike.
The Gilded Age is an era of industrial development.
ReplyDeleteAmerica had a Gilded Age
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbuilt were the most influential captians of industry.
Carnegie and Rockefeller used their wealth to help craftman become trained engineers and scientists. Vanderbilt used his money to build steamships and railroads.
Labor unions became poplular in the 1800s and there were a lot of battles along the way.
-The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, which brought and end to knights of labor.
-The Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 and the Haymarket Square Strike, which ended with support of the knights.
-The Homestead Strike ended up with giving better wages and better working conditions.
-The Pullman Strike that ended with the labor union unable to regain power until the 1930s.
We had a Gilded Age but you can refer it to gold too because gilded means gold. The Gilded Age was a time when the nations wealth expanded. Some captains of industry were Vanderbilt, he built railroads, and J Pierpont Morgan who was into banking and financing. The four most violent strikes were The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Haymartket Square Strike in 1886, Homestead Steel Strike in 1892, and The Pullman Strike of 1894. Justin Grebloski
ReplyDelete-refers to the substantial growth in population.
ReplyDelete-America had a gilded age.
-Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbiltwere the most influential industrialists of the time. They all were very successful and wealthy people.
-The four srtikes that went on at this time were 1.) the great railroad strike of 1877,brought end of the support of the Knights of labor. 2.) the great southweststrike of 1886. 3.)the homestead strike which was for b etter wages and this ended in an attempt to assassinate Frick. 4.)The Pullman Strike was when Pullman refused to meet with workers to discuss unsafe working conditions.
Mike Zdiera
A gilded age is a major growth in population and wealth in the united states.
ReplyDeleteThe US had a gilded age.
Large corporations were formed and used cheap labor.
The unions weren’t very strong but tried to improve conditions for the workers.
Some of the major strikes were:
*The Great Railroad strike hundreds died, thousands were put in jail. With an end resulting in the railroads giving some concessions.
*The Great Southwest Strike was a failure and led straight to the collapsing of the knights of labor.
*The Homestead Strike is one of the most serious labor disputes, Carnegie lost his public image and the view of the unions improved.
*The Pullman Strike was the first national strike in the US history and was based on unsafe working conditions.
Jessica Gregis
I think america had a gilded age.
ReplyDeleteA gilded age is a substantial growth in population in the United States. Which we had seeing as slavery ended, so africans were coming in from africa without the fear of becoming a slave. Also, immigrants were coming in from numerous coutries. A labor union is A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, etc.
Captain of industry was a term originally used in the U.S. during the Industrial Revolution describing a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way. ...
The Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 was a labor union strike against the union pacific and missouri pacific railroads.
The Homestead Strike was a strike against labor that started sometime in june 1892.During the 1800’s workers had limited mobility and limited employment opportunities. Because employees could not migrate to jobs with better terms of employment, they were forced to make the most of the jobs that they had -- even if this meant fighting to the death over the terms and conditions of employment.
The pullman strikee happened in illinois.Owned by George Pullman, the town was the home to all the workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company. When Pullman refused to meet with workers to discuss intolerable conditions brought on by the Panic of 1893, a national rail strike was orchestrated by the American Railway Union led by Eugene V. Debs.
May Day Strike On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers staged a nationwide work stoppage to demand the adoption of a standard eight-hour workday. Forty thousand workers struck in Chicago, Illinois; ten thousand struck in New York; eleven thousand struck in Detroit, Michigan. As many as thirty-two thousand workers struck in Cincinnati, Ohio, although some of these workers had been out on strike for several months before May 1.
A gilded age is when the country has a big jump in economic growth along with the growth of industries such as carnegie and steel vanderbilt and the railroad and rockefeller and oil. It also saw the rise of the captains of industry such as carnegie, vanderbilt, j.p morgan, and rockefeller. And withe the big buisness labor unions started and had some big batlles with the owners such as the great rail strike of 1877 the haymarket square riot 1886 the homestead steel works strike 1892 and the pullman railroad strike 1894
ReplyDeleteA guilded age is a time of prosperity. The relationship between the captains of industry was not a good one. The captains often tried to exploit the workers.
ReplyDeleteThe Great Rail Strike of (1877)
The Haymarket Square Riot (1886)
The Homestead Steel Works Strike (1892)
The Pullman Railroad Strike (1894)
The Guiled age was a time of great advancements in the U.S. A guilded age pretty much means the country has great economic boost. The captains of industry were not bad people, but they werent very nice people either. Many of them were very philanthropic, but also treated their workers very badly. Because of their horrible treatment there were many strikes including : The Pullman Strike,
ReplyDeleteThe Great Rail Strike, The Haymarket Square Riot, and The Homestead Steel Strike.