Gilded Age Definition, History, & Mark Twain

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Hiring, firing, and wage rates were set not by foremen, but by central administrators, to minimize favoritism and personality conflicts. Everything was done by the book, whereby an increasingly complex set of rules dictated to everyone exactly what should be done in every circumstance, and exactly what their rank and pay would be. By the 1880s the career railroaders were retiring, and pension systems were invented to provide for them. Petroleum launched a new industry beginning with the Pennsylvania oil fields in the 1860s. The United States dominated the global industry into the 1950s.

The wheat farmers enjoyed abundant output and good years from 1876 to 1881 when bad European harvests kept the world price high. They then suffered from a slump in the 1880s when conditions in Europe improved. The farther west the settlers went, the more dependent they became on the monopolistic railroads to move their goods to market, and the more inclined they were to protest, as in the Populist movement of the 1890s. Wheat farmers blamed local grain elevator owners , railroads and eastern bankers for the low prices.

In 1934, national policy was reversed again by the Indian Reorganization Act which tried to protect tribal and communal life on reservations. Reformers wanted to give as many Native Americans as possible the opportunity to own and operate their own farms and ranches, so the issue was how to give individual natives land owned by the tribe. To assimilate the natives into American society, reformers set up training programs and schools, such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, that produced many prominent Native American leaders. However, anti-assimilation traditionalists on the reservations resisted integration and the resulting loss of their traditional life. Along with the mechanical improvements which greatly increased yield per unit area, the amount of land under cultivation grew rapidly throughout the second half of the century, as the railroads opened up new areas of the West for settlement.

They mandated de jure segregation in all public facilities, such as stores and street cars, with a supposedly “separate but equal” status for Black people. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were dramatically inferior to those provided for White Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. Schools for Black people were far fewer and poorly supported by taxpayers, although Northern philanthropies and churches kept open dozens of academies and small colleges.

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She wants to see it, and Ward decides he can finagle it, even though Mrs. Astor would definitely not want Bertha inside at this point. Mrs. Astor is far away and Ward knows the butler, Mr. Hefty! Before Aurora leaves for Newport, she tells Marian that she has concerns about Tom Raikes. DON’T WE ALL. Marian tells her, with the confidence of the young, to please not worry.

Julian Fellowes’ new period drama, The Gilded Age, has come at just the right time for TV lovers. The extravagant sets, stellar cast and colour-saturated costumes are the perfect antidote to the winter blues. Among the best known of them were John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Leland Stanford, and J.P. It wouldn’t be a show after Downton’s heart if it didn’t feature a billion characters we somehow grow to love, loathe, and root for. Though the first episode of The Gilded Age focused on the families upstairs, it’s only a matter of time until we get to know the downstairs cast as well.

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Self-taught coder, art schooled designer, MFA trained actor, and what not? Possibly, As David Furr’s blue eyes make every girl fall in love maybe his character in the show will do the same and will once again find a soulmate and a mother for his daughter. We won’t have time to write about the other guest stars if we mention his roles and in what movies he has played them, haha.

This photo shows a man’s living quarters in the cellar of a New York City tenement house in 1891. Immigration provided a large pool of child laborers to exploit. This twelve-year-old boy, shown in this 1889 photo, worked as a thread-puller in a New York clothing factory. Houses that were once for a single family were often divided up to pack in as many people as possible, as this 1905 photo shows. The Gilded Age was in many ways the culmination of the Industrial Revolution, when America and much of Europe shifted from an agricultural society to an industrial one. Railroad tycoons were just one of many types of so-called robber barons that emerged in the Gilded Age.

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They wanted better streets, so they paved them with wood or granite blocks. In 1890, a third of Chicago’s 2000 miles of streets were paved, chiefly with wooden blocks, which gave better traction than mud. Brick surfacing was a good compromise, but even better was asphalt paving.

The new American Federation of Labor, headed by Samuel Gompers, found the solution. The AFL was a coalition of unions, each based on strong local chapters; the AFL coordinated their work in cities and prevented jurisdictional battles. Gompers repudiated socialism and abandoned the violent nature of the earlier unions.

That’s not counting multiple characters’ battlefield flashbacks to Civil War slaughters. And that’s before the plodding, perpetually endangered expedition gets far north enough for freezing and starvation to take their tolls. French mirror notwithstanding, the Belle Époque this is not. When Elsa says “Death is everywhere” twice within the first six episodes, she isn’t being melodramatic. This is the 1880s we’re talking about; the average life expectancy in the U.S. was about 40 years, so you’ll see some death either way.

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Like Marian Brook in The Gilded Age, Sanditon’s heroine moves from her family home to a new place on the cusp of dramatic change. You may change your billing preferences at any time in the Customer Center or call Customer Service. You will be notified in advance of any changes in rate or terms. You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling Customer Service.

It gathered strength from the postmillennial theology that the Second Coming of Christ would come after mankind had reformed the entire earth. The Social Gospel movement gained its force from the Awakening, as did the worldwide missionary FlirtWith movement. New groupings emerged, such as the Holiness movement and Nazarene movements, Theosophy and Christian Science. The teaching profession had once been heavily male, but as schooling expanded many women took on teaching careers.

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