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The Railroad Act of 1862
<a href='' >http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/five/railact.htm</a>
This had to do with the Gilded Age and the Rise of Industry because it has to do with the beginning of transportation and the improvment of society.
Its main purpose was to move raw material eastward. -
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Child Labor
<a href='' >http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Key-People-in-Labor-History/Mother-Jones-1837-1930</a> Children made $1- $2 and hour, and worked 9-10 hours a week. so they would be getting paid $2 for 70 hours of work.
Mother Jones had a big part in child labor.
Her four children got yellow fever because of the fact that they had to work as children and their working enviornment was not safe. Once they got yellow fever they gave it to the whole family because it was contageous and they all ended up dying but before Mother Jones died she cofounded the Industrial Worker of the World. -
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The Rise of Industry
<a href='' >https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/essays/rise-industrial-america-1877-1900</a> People saw significant changes during the transformation of our society as it shifted from an agricultural to an industrial and urbanized society.
During these years there was a net immigration of approximately 7,348,000 people into the United States.
At the end of 1890 more than 20 percent of the 161,000 miles of railroad in the U.S. had been constructed in the previous four years. -
Hull House
<a href='' >http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2587800031/addams-jane.html</a>
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr were the co-founders of Hull House.
The Hull House was a settlement house, a place were immigrants could go when they crossed over the border.
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"How the Other Half Lives" by: Jacob Riis
<a href='' >http://www.bartleby.com/208/</a>
"How the Other Half Lives" and the sequeal "Battle with the Slum" reveal the forrible living conditions in the Lower East Side of NEw York City.
Most of the foundlings come from the East Side, where they are left by young mothers without wedding-ring or other name than their own to bestow upon the baby, returning from the island hospital to face an unpitying world with the evidence of their shame. —Chap. XVI. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
<a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson</a>
The Plessy vs. Ferguson case delt with the political issue at that time, "separate but equal".
This had to do with the gilded age because that is when the blacks and whites started to work together and get along. -
The Start of The Great MIgration
<a href='' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration</a>
The Great Migration relocated approximatly 6 million African Americans from the South to the North.
Segragation was big during the Gilded Age and this gave African Americans a better working opprotunity since they took advatage of the factory jobs up north.
