Essays on Gilded Age

During America’s Gilded Age (1877-1900), only a few had privileges and fair opportunity; however, within the context of industrialization, modern human rights emerged through keener socio-economic conflicts. Characterized by ethnic, gender and socio-economic repressions, levels of separateness and inequality were maintained. The fight for human…

Compare the Objectives and strategies of organized labor (aka unions) and the Populists for challenging the prevailing economic beliefs and practices of the Gilded Age. Laissez Faire has been ubiquitous throughout the United States of America ever since its birth in the Revolutionary War, where…

If one were to say that the United States was completely integrative and accepting towards immigrants during the Gilded Age, that person would be wrong. And, that person would also be wrong in saying that there wasn’t a huge schism between blue-collar and white-collar works…