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Knights of Labor
Founded by Uriah Stephens the Knights of Labor was a very important group, the first large labor organization in the United States. The Knights worked for the rights of workers in a time where capitalists ran the industry. An 8 hour work day for workers was among one of the most important goals of the organization. Terence V. Powderly led the group in a direction that most groups did not go. Terence welcomed anyone into the Knights of Labor and may be part of why the Knights were so successful. -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. The Standard Oil Company serviced more than ninety percent of oil refineries and oil trade in the United States in the early 1880s. John D. Rockefeller was considered an industrialist during The Gilded Age, he made a large impact on the extraction, movement and sales of oil during this time. Rockefeller was among one of the first people to have a national company. In 1911 the Standard Oil Company split after legalities. -
The Gilded Age: Tale of Today
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warners novel was first published in 1873. The book gave the name "The Gilded Age" to post Civil War time in America. Twain and Warner saw the problems of this period in time. Their work focused on the corruption in politics and greed of this time in history. The definition of gilded shows that they believed this era was about money but underneath all that layer of riches had serious problems. Twain and Warner were among the first to give this era its popular name. -
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago was started to serve as a art museum and an art school. The museum was first founded in 1866 but later destroyed by The Great Chicago Fire in 1871. In 1879 a group of local business owners apply for consent to start their new idea for the institute.The Art Institute was founded as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1879 (Art Institue of Chicago, 2017). By the early 1880s over 300 students enroll in the school showing progress for the fine arts during The Gilded Age. -
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins, a painter alive from 1844-1916, made a huge impact on male professions during the 19th century. During this time there was an increase in the expansion of male occupations. "Medical doctors, professors, engineers, scientists, architects, and lawyers"(Pohl, 2012, p. 266) were among these new occupations. Thomas Eakins used his art to show the meaning of manhood in the 19th century. Thomas Eakins "often heroic images may have helped reassert their masculinity"(Pohl, 2012, p. 267). -
Haymarket Riot
During the 1880s there were still many organized labor movements put on similar to what the Knights of Labor practiced. A mass meeting was organized on May 4, 1886 in Chicago to protest killings that happened the day before at a strike working towards fair labor cond. Although the meeting started peaceful a bomb was thrown towards the police ending in chaos. After the riot many opinions of labor rights were even more divided making people feel this took the movement for labor rights backwards. -
The First Painters
An artistic movement known as The Ash Can School began in the early twentieth century. Robert Henri, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, George Luks and William Glackens were a few of the most popular artists of this group of young men who were also considered the first of the Ashcan painters. This movement was not intended or organized but rather started because of how each of the artists work showed the truth of daily living during this time. The Ash Can School movement shaped the way of this era.
