Social Gospel Movement Gospel of Wealth Only help

Social Gospel Movement • • Gospel of Wealth • Only help those that can help themselves, do Help the poor not give directly: to the poor “What would Jesus • Andrew Carnegie do” article: “On Settlement Houses Wealth, ” 1889, it Jane Addams is a “shame to Salvation Army die wealthy, ” Philanthropy: YMCA libraries, Red Cross Carnegie Washington Foundation Gladden Protestant (Puritan) Work Ethic Social Darwinism • Do not help -Sign of Gods the poor favor to get rich, • Herbert seek wealth Spencer -Russell Conwell: “Acres • Natural Selection, of Diamonds” Christian duty to adapt or die get rich -Founded Temple University

• • Knights Founded 1869 Terrance Powderly Organized all workers Unsuccessful, died off after the Haymarket Riot, seen as radical AFL IWW • Founded 1886 • Samuel Gompers • Skilled workers only • Most successful union, largest Union in US today • 1905 Founded • Big Bill Haywood • Killed off by the US government in the Red Scare in the 1920 s

New v. Old Stock Immigrants

Robber Barron v. Captains of Industry: (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan) • • • Ruthless monopolies, crushed competition, Ida Tarbell History of Standard Oil Monopolies, unfair trading practices, need for Sherman Antitrust Act Vertical (Carnegie) & Horizontal (Rockefeller) Integration RR rebates Erie RR Wars Jay Gould stock dumping scheme Need for Labor Unions Strikes: Pullman, Homestead, Great RR, Haymarket Corruption: Credit Moblier Scandal Morganization: GE, US Steel Electricity Wars: Tesla v. Edison Not care about worker safety, 2, 000 RR workers die a year • • Made market more efficient, created jobs, higher GDP, higher standard of living Philanthropy Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth, libraries Schools: Duke, Stanford, Cornell… JP Morgan bailed out the federal government twice Vertical (Carnegie) & Horizontal (Rockefeller) Integration: More efficient New technology: Electricity, phones, motion pictures, Bessemer process, RR

Organizing Industrial Workers • • Labor Unions Collective Bargaining Knights, AFL, IWW Strikes: Great RR, Homestead, Pullman Farmers • The Grange • Farmer’s Alliance • Populist Party

Gold • • Deflation Republicans William Mc. Kinley Wins 1896 Election v. • • Silver Inflation Populists-Democrats William Jennings Bryan Loses 1896 Election

Cause and Effect • How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century affected by technological developments and government actions? • Reservation movement, Plains Indian Wars VS. • Dawes Act, 1887, assimilation

Compare and Contrast • Compare and contrast the attitudes of TWO of the following toward the wealth that was created in the United States during the late nineteenth century. – Andrew Carnegie – Eugene V. Debs – Horatio Alger – John D. Rockefeller

• Compare and contrast the ideas of TWO of the following groups in dealing with the issues of poverty in the United State from 1865 – 1900 –Social Darwinism –Gospel of Wealth –Social Gospel Movement

Cause and Effect • Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War with respect to an TWO of the following in the United States between 1865 and 1900. – Agriculture – Labor – Industrialization – Transportation

Cause and Effect • Analyze the reasons (Causes) for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth century.

Compare and Contrast • Compare and contrast the roles of the federal government as both the promoter and regulator of industrial development and market capitalism from 1865 to 1900. • Cite specific evidence like a historian to justify your answer.