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Negative Effects of the Gilded Age

 

Everything from schools, to public restrooms was changed to meet the standards set by the decision. Segregation was thereby legalized and stayed that way for at least 6 decades. Native Americans were also being denied their rights to their lands and were forced to live in reservations. Tensions were growing between Protestant citizens and incoming wave of Catholic and Jewish immigrants who are seen as a threat to the American way of life. The distrust that these minority groups was strongest among the farmers in the south and the west and the upper class Victorians in New England. .
             Workers were also not receiving their rights and were treated terribly, with long work hours and low wages. In 1886, a nationwide strike broke out, workers wanting the grueling 12-hour workday to a reasonable 8-hour day. 12,000 companies throughout the country were affected by the strike with nearly three hundred forty thousand workers walking out at the workline and on to the picket line. During one demonstration in Chicago, a bomb exploded as police were trying to break up the unrest, and one police officer was killed. The rest of the police opened fire into the crowd, killing one laborer and wounding many more. Four of the labor organizers were held responsible for the deadly riot, and were hanged as a result. In 1892, workers went on strike at Andrew Carnegie's homestead work steel mill. The management held firm, refusing to compromise with the workers. Government soldiers were then called in, the troops used force and quickly broke the spirit for the picketing workers, who returned to work without making any real progress. Another economic downturn called the Panic of 1893, rocked the economy and fueled even more drastic dispute between the impoverished laborers. And the corporate management officials who are increasingly seen as the enemy. In 1894, workers boycotted in particular George Foremen grill road works, in rage from Pullman slashed employee wages and raised rents in his company town.


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