The Gilded Age was an important era in American history, this was the time of economic growth and industrialization, but also had high percentages of poverty and immigrant problems because of urbanization which provided horrible living conditions for many people. This started with labor force and farmers. Historically, farming became increasingly hard due to new expensive equipment, railroads increased farmers’ costs by gouging them, foreign competitor and overproduction made prices go down. Many farmers responded by overproducing, this lead to more debt for farmers because they needed money to buy land and machines. Similarly, the labor force had to abide the same thing. Their lives described in nature as poor, solitary, nasty and short. …show more content…
Also, women’s rights and slaves, which called “Minorities”, were big problems. At that time, women had no right to vote, no meaningful rights or political participation. In the workplace, women’s rights were little to none, they would have earned less than men, even though, both men and women had poor working conditions. Feme sole was allowed to own property and made contracts in her own name, however, feme convert was not recognized as having legal rights and obligations distinct from those of her husband. As for African-American, Mr. Justice Brown once said when delivered the opinion of the court, “If the two races are to meet upon terms of social equality, it must be the result of natural affinities, a mutual appreciation of each other's merits, and a voluntary consent of individuals” . This stated that equal right for African-American is necessary, there is no such thing as separate but