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Child Labor
During the Gilded Age children, instead of going to school went to work. They worked 10-hour shifts, six days a week, and the wages they earned were barely enough to support their families. Children would work under dangerous conditions and often died. -
Nativism
Political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including by supporting immigration-restriction measures. -
Tenements
Tenements are a multi-occupancy buildings.The apartments were built close together, lacked windows, with no ventilation, often dark and didn't have proper sanitation. -
Corruption in the Government
It was a period where greedy, corrupt industrialists, bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth and at the expense of the working class. In fact, it was wealthy tycoons, not politicians, who inconspicuously held the most political power during the Gilded Age.
