Impact of Industrialization During the Gilded Age

The video explores the Second Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age, highlighting technological and business advancements that transformed the U.S. from a rural farming nation to an urban industrial one. It examines changes in work, living patterns, and cultural ideas, noting significant shifts in labor and migration but continuity in racial and economic ideologies. The video concludes with a thesis on the extent of change during this period.

What major technologies emerged during the Gilded Age?

• Quantum computing

• Renewable energy sources

• Steel, electricity, and the telephone

• Internet and smartphones

What role did the telephone play during the Gilded Age?

• Decreased the efficiency of communication

• Facilitated instant business transactions over long distances

• Had little impact on business practices

• Was primarily used for personal communication

What was a significant effect of the Second Industrial Revolution on the workforce?

• Shift towards unskilled wage work

• Increased need for skilled labor

• Decrease in factory jobs

• Stagnation of business practices

What was a common characteristic of work in 1865?

• Segregation by race

• Predominance of factory work

• Integrated workplaces

• Widespread labor unions

What was the impact of industrialization on agriculture?

• Reduced the need for agricultural products

• Improved conditions for sharecroppers

• Led to a decline in farming jobs

• Increased the number of small farms

How did the concept of work evolve by the end of the 19th century?

• Most people worked for themselves

• Shift towards employment for wages

• Decrease in factory work

• Elimination of child labor

How did living patterns change by 1898?

• Decrease in city populations

• Stable migration patterns

• Increase in rural living

• Nearly doubled city populations

Which group began to migrate northward to escape Jim Crow laws?

• African Americans

• German immigrants

• Irish immigrants

• Southern Europeans

What was a major cultural continuity from the Civil War to the end of the Gilded Age?

• Decrease in nativism

• Progress in racial equality

• Stable economic policies

• Intensified nativist sentiment

What was a significant cultural shift regarding the economy during the Gilded Age?

• Universal rejection of capitalism

• Adoption of regulated market policies

• Continued support for laissez-faire economics

• Shift towards socialism