University of Central Florida Income Inequality in The Gilded Age Discussion
Labor, Capital, and Immigration in the Gilded Age
How did the extreme disparities of wealth in the Gilded Age United States affect definitions of American freedom? Did the economic elite and the working class have similar or different ideas of freedom? Be sure to reference at least one document in your answer.
write a 200-word discussion board post in response to the prompt. In your response, you must quote or make reference to at least one of the documents assigned for reading in this module. You may also use material addressed in the lecture videos. You must post a 50-word substantive response to one of your classmates’ posts.
Required reading: Voices of Freedom ( i will provide the book):
- Document 104 – Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth” (1889)
- Document 105 – William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca. 1880)
- Document 106 – A Second Declaration of Independence (1879)
- videos can help in this assignment:
Required reading: Voices of Freedom
- Document 107 – Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)
- Document 111 – The Populist Platform (1892)
- videos can help in this assignment:
https://youtu.be/r6tRp-zRUJs?list=PL13DEfO7Sm15mDCPi6DomliItbVyonTEG
