The Gilded Age

Table of Contents

Page 3. Monopolies

Page 4. Industrial Workers

Page 5. Child Labor

Page 6. Tenement Housing

Page 7. William Jennings Bryan

Politcal cartoon of Standard Oil as an example of monopolies in America.

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Young industrial workers in a glass factory.

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Child labor during the Gilded Age.

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Tenement housing in New York.

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Excerpt from a William Jennings Bryan speech in 1896.

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The Gilded Age is about the way the working class is living.

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This time era doesn't single out a small particular group, but the fact of the matter is many lived terrible lives brought on by capitalism throughout the country.

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One of the most important things to understand is that some people did recognize the problems with society.

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