Gilded Age Research Paper

“A rising tide lifts all boats” is an idiom from the 1900’s that expresses the idea that economic growth benefits all people; it’s the idea that if the economy grows even the poorest people can benefit and succeed from it, which is very commonly debated upon because of how controversial it is; the Gilded age is a prime example of the, “affirmative” and, “negative” side of this idiom clashing in a battle between economic advancement vs the safety of civilians; railroads/transportation and charity/libraries of America. Not only did it happen around the same time as the march on Washington, it also happened around the same time women gained the right to vote and Martin Luther King gave his famous, “I have a dream speech” despite not being nearly …show more content…
before the Gilded age, transportation was unbearably slow to the point where you couldn’t even get one place to another, however with the Gilded age and the invention of the assembly line, it caused fast moving vehicles to be mass produced making life in the Gilded age much more easier. this is important because shortly afterwards cars and other vehicles became the most popular vehicles in norm for transportation, so imagine if economic growth never happened, you would be forced to drive in a car that moves at 3-5 miles an hour, approximately 3x slower than an average bike; In Carnegies gospel of wealth, it says “no substitutes for it have been found; and while …show more content…
Despite the fact that this may be true, libraries and or philanthropy are not the only important parts of the Gilded Age. That makes it so important to history, because despite how many people died in tenement houses, meat packing factories, or any other horrible building that caused deaths during the Gilded Age, the sole reason most of these bad and unsafe places got fixed in the first place place was because of the economy providing resources to better the working conditions of jobs, or make tenement houses bigger and cleaner. most of the amendments such as the 15th or 19th amendment were directly related to economic growth and without it these monumental amendments that changed the world would not exist or ever be signed, economic growth is almost always somehow tied into important historical events and making workplaces safer is not an exception to this pattern. people did die because of the carelessness of companies and how cheap they were during the gilded age, a prime example being the gilded age. the great fire that killed over 146 people which was directly connected to a bad workplace, but most of this has nothing to do with economic growth and most of the time economic growth is what gets rid of the carelessness and horrible working conditions of the greedy companies. for example economic growth is

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