GILDED AGE: SOCIAL ISSUES

IMMIGRANTS IN CITIES/TO AMERICA

• The immigrants and Americans
• They were impacted by making less job opportunities
• It transformed America by the Americans looking down on immigrants

SOCIAL GOSPEL

• The Social Gospel impacted the Protestant part of America
• They weren't pleased with the poverty level so they provided a religious rationale to address those concerns
• It transformed America by leading to women's suffrage and the emphasis it had on morality led to prohibition

PHILANTHROPY

• It impacted the needy in America
• Organizations like Red Cross and Salvation Army were supportive
• We have become the biggest philanthropy in the world

WOMEN & CHILDREN

• It impacted the women and children
• Women had to deal with suffrage and children had to work in factories
• Women are allowed to vote now and children go to school

NATIVISM & ASSIMILATION

• It impacted immigrants
• Nativists objected primarily to Irish Roman Catholics because of their loyalty to the Pope
• Catholics are limited to what they can practice

CHINESE EXCLUSION

• It impacted Chinese laborers
• It prohibited the immigration of all Chinese laborers
• The law was taken away