Gilded Age

 Jayla Balderas 

Mr. Roddy

IHSS 

April 11, 2022 

                                                             Gilded Age Blog 

The Gilded age was filled with a lot of greed and scheming for the most wealth and power, with little care for what was destroyed in its path. The main three names during the gilded age were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Each of these men played roles in the business that formed the Gilded Age. The oil industry, the steel business, the railroad industry, and the steamship industry. It was interesting how each of them had different backgrounds and upbringings but in the end, they were all making the same unethical decisions. Using lobbying to get their way to help them win rivals to play unfairly or to put them above the law. Rockefeller and Carnegie were both philanthropists who at the end of their lives gave a lot of money away to charities, but also placed a lot in the universities in their names. Also seeing the mentions of muckrakers and the mission they had of trying to expose the corruption of these men. Plus the strikes workers went on, usually ended in violence and even people dead really shows the tug and pull between the rich and the poor. The contrasts pointed out in the article, “Are we living in the gilded age 2.0” were interesting but specifically the mention of the signature product. How for the gilded age it was a product of steel, but for us, it's the silicon chip. It's crazy to think how those two things changed life forever and so drastically. Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Cornelius gained so much wealth because they started doing business in these industries when they were so new when America entered a zone of economic growth and industrialization but even then It had so many problems.


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