The Gilded Age

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The Gilded Age

• Life styles of the rich
• And life styles of the poor

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Andrew Carnegie-U.S. Steel
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Henry Ford Ford motors
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J.P. Morgan-Banking
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John Rockefeller-Standard Oil
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Cornelius Vanderbilt-shipping
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• You load sixteen tons and what do you
  get?Another day older and deeper in debt.Saint
  Peter don't come a calling,cause I cant go - I
  owe my soul to the Company Store.
• In those days of the Iron and Coal Police, where
  a man was billed for the powder and tools he used
  to mine the coal, workers labored 12-hours a day,
  7-days a week and got 50 cents for their trouble.
  If you talked wrong against the company, the Iron
  and Coal Police beat you bloody and threw your
  family and its meager possessions into the
  street.

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Vanderbilt dining room
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Children working the night shift midnight til
600 am
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Life in the tenements
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Sea food worke
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Struggling families
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Most children smoked
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Vanderbilt home

• 250 rooms, 65 fireplaces,
• Indoor swimming pool
• Priceless art and antiques

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Vanderbilt home- Ashville NC
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Mother Jones, union agitator
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Samuel Gompers labor leader
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

• New York Times, March 26, 1911, p. 1.
• 141 Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire
  Trapped High Up in Washington Place Building
  Street Strewn with Bodies Piles of Dead Inside

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Teddy Roosevelt
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Taft
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Taft
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Woodrow Wilson