Describe the Gilded Age

Paper instructions

Answer the following question by the source

the Puritan code of moral conduct; political v. market entrepreneurs; James J. Hill; Thomas Edison; national brands and chains; vertical and horizontal integration; Andrew Carnegie; John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil; Dawes Act; Buffalo soldiers; political machines; Civil Service Act; Interstate Commerce Commission; Sherman Antitrust Act; Social Darwinism; liberty of contract; Knights of Labor; Henry George and Progress and Poverty; Haymarket Riot; government role in the economy

Describe the Gilded Age. What were the material products of the industrial age and how did they change the way people lived? Who were the “captains of industry” and how did they impact the American standard of living and way of life? What role did government play in controlling the economy? Was capitalism the problem, or government control?

How did critics and reformers react to the social changes wrought by the industrial age? What are the arguments against their claims and why are they not allowed space in our survey textbooks?