How Did The Railroad Affect The Gilded Age

In this paper I will explain how the railroads changed American society, politics, and its economy during this era. Secondly, I’ll talk about the 1896 election and how that impacted America and changed American Politics and elections form that point on. Lastly, I will identify the 4 themes of the Gilded Age and explain the causes of these themes and the consequences it had on American politics, economy, and its society. When railroads were invented in America, and first started being used commercially and for businesses, it was a major technological leap. They created a huge demand for goods.

Gilded age 1878-1889 was the age of fast growth of industry and immigrants in America history. The production of steel and iron rose radically than other time. In contrast, the Western resources increased such as silver,lumber, and gold. As well as the transportation also improved. Railroad develop and move goods from resources rich west to east.

During the gilded age, America's economy was growing at a fast rate making plenty millionaires. New industries and businesses were formed during this age like steel and coal. Thus made people like Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Carnegie rich. But becoming the owner of an industry was actually a pretty easy life but made the lives of the poor harder with long work hours and low wages. This made the common poor people upset and their control of where they live.

During the Gilded Age there was a lot of monopolies, because we haven't discovered anything yet. SO the U.S needed a lot, which impacted us a lot. Monopolies were probably had the biggest impact on the Gilded Age. Vanderbilt had a monopoly for a while, and when we .thought it was over Travis Scot made his own. Travis Scott overcame our monopoly with railroads from Vanderbilt, then just made his own.

The Gilded Age, a forty-eight year period at the end of the nineteenth century, was described as a time that has a rotten core covered with gold paint by Mark Twain. During that era, after the Civil War, the nation had been filled with unscrupulous businessmen and massive corruptions. Similar to the situation in the Gilded Age, the wealth gap in today is enormous and hence causing people to call it the second Gilded Age. Although society in the U.S. is different nowadays, the economic and political situation from these two time periods share many similarities. Gilded Age is an era where economy grew astonishingly.

Despite some issues, The Gilded Age, or Industrial era, overall had a great impact on America. During this time, the economy saw a great increase, people were given new opportunities such as jobs, and the popularity of America increased globally. I really enjoyed watching "The Gilded Age", and found it very educational. I found the meaning of the name of the documentary interesting, the fact that America put off this image that they were perfect but behind the image were various issues. I guess you could say this proves to never judge a book by its cover.

When these major events occurred in the Gilded Age, it caused periods of success, failure, and sometimes overall no change. Some outcomes of these new ideas being formed caused corruption, but led to the government and politics becoming much stronger and more organized. Most of the ideas published wanted to increase wealth and rivalries between businesses. Even though the Gilded Age benefited with the reforms created and fell with it’s poor use of money, it helped create the way we run our government

The editors of the website, “History.com”, said “ In addition to transporting western food crops and raw materials to East Coast markets and manufactured goods from East Coast cities to the West Coast, the railroad also facilitated international trade…the U.S. by the 1890s had the most powerful economy on the planet” (para 3). Being able to transport goods from coast to coast brought new opportunities, and companies began to gain more profit as a result of more products being sold. The economy went from a generally limited location on the east coast to creating industries across the nation. The railroad created a production boom because industries in the eastern U.S. had to create the supplies necessary to build the railroad as well as creating the opportunity for industries to expand to the

The Industrial Revolution brought many advancements in technology and the economy. However, it also uncovered many issues for the working class, ones that ran dominant and unchecked during the Gilded Age. The mindset of the American working population also began to develop in their mindset to question and fight against the conditions they were forced to endure. Progressives headed the movement, bring on their own era of change and justice. The transition and duration of the Gilded Age to Progressive Era brought many adaptations to worker’s rights and regulations in the workplace.

During the gilded age, the United States of America was going through some tough innovations. Most of the Innovations changed the way people lived and worked. One of the biggest impact on the country was the telephone which was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, the telephone helped people contact each other across thousands of miles across the country without having to wait weeks or months for mail, the impact on this was very life changing to people . Another impact of technologies in the gilded ages was the light bulb and electricity that powered the bulb, the light bulb was invented by a man named Thomas Eddison, when Eddison invented the light bulb he knew that it was going to be a life changing Impact on people, he knew that people would

Gianni Thomas Marasso Mrs. Kilker College US History January 30, 2023 The Gilded Age and its Effects From the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, American Society was going under a second Industrial Revolution. This rapid increase in technological advancements helped American industrialism flourish, and even replaced Britain as head of industrialization. This Revolution was also known as the “Gilded Age.”

During the Gilded age, there was a group of industrialists who impacted America greatly. Industrialists like Vanderbilt, Edison, and Rockefeller all owned successful businesses and were leaders in their industries. Industrialists of the Gilded Age were Captains of Industry because they were inventive and were Philanthropists who benefited society. Throughout the Gilded Age, industrialists were Captains of Industry because they were Philanthropists who donated money to schools, medical centers, and former slaves.

Industrialist had a huge impact on the gilded age. The gilded age was a rapid expansion of industrialism and a massive jump in the population of immigrants in america. The industrialist during the gilded age such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt had a big impact because of their businesses. Vanderbilt was the first of the three to be a leader of industry. Vanderbilt made millions using the railroad system and built an empire with them.

The Tremendous Impact of Railroads on America In the late 19th century, railroads propelled America into an era of unprecedented growth, prosperity, and convenient transportation. Prior to the building of the railroads, America lacked the proper and rapid transportation to make traveling across the country economical or practical. Lengthy travel was often cumbersome, costly, and dangerous.

The first way that the economy was impacted was that with the ease and efficiency of the railroads, they created a large demand for goods and labor because they needed a lot of people to help build the railroads and also needed a large quantity of steel for the rails and wood for the railroad ties. Secondly the railroads created a huge national market because of the simplicity of delivering goods from place to place. The railroads helped the people in even the most rural place prosper with the cost efficient transportation of the trains. From 1830 to 1861, the United States laid aproximately 30,000 miles of railroad track, which led to an increase in demand for coal which was used to produce iron for the