WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Women and children had to become wage earners
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Women and children became business owners
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Women and children became more educated
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Women and children became leaders of organized labor
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Detailed explanation-1: -The group of people who feared the new wave of foreign immigrants who were different from themselves were called nativists.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mark Twain, who coined the moniker “The Gilded Age” in his 1873 novel of the same name, used it to describe the era’s patina of splendor-gilded, after all, is not gold-and the shaky foundations undergirding industrialists’ vast accumulation of wealth.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant, combined photography and journalism into a powerful indictment of poverty in America. His 1890, How the Other Half Lives shocked Americans with its raw depictions of urban slums.
Detailed explanation-4: -And yet, by the 1880s, the great cattle drives were largely done. The railroads had created them, and the railroads ended them: railroad lines pushed into Texas and made the great drives obsolete.