Name: 金ピカ時代の改革｜APアメリカ史｜カーン・アカデミー (Reform in the Gilded Age | AP US History | Khan Academy)
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was very different from the Gilded Age he knew.

It was a utopian society where there was no poverty

His new friends in the future explained to him

There was no private property and no money.

Everyone worked at the job they were most suited for

and received their fair share of the national wealth

on a credit card that they could use to buy necessities.

It was a bestseller of its day but today we remember it

not only for its predictions about the future

but as an example of how thinkers of the time period

explored the burning question of the Gilded Age.

Was it possible to have a modern industrial society

In the late 19th century the rapid changes in American life

stemming from the rise of industrial capitalism

The United States prided itself on being different

where the inequality between the aristocracy

and the working class caused strife and revolution.

both millionaires and impoverished millions

to the United States, packing them in to cities

where mansions sat side-by-side with filthy tenements.

Suddenly, the New World looked a lot more like the old world

Those who answered yes were called Social Darwinists

who thought that the survival of the fittest

would weed out the weak and improve society overall.

We'll talk more about Social Darwinism elsewhere

on those who believe that it was possible to have a society

During the Gilded Age there were a number of reformers

and reform movements that attempted to solve the problems

So let's talk about some of the ways that reformers

attempted to respond to the inequalities of the Gilded Age.

and the national wealth was equally shared.

In fact, what he was suggesting was socialism

a system in which the government, not private individuals

Bellamy carefully avoided saying the word socialism

but he portrayed it as the ultimate remedy

including the labor activist and socialist leader

was the single tax which was proposed by Henry George

was to replace all other taxes with a single high tax

He believed that the revenue from this tax

One of George's many admirers was Jacob Riis.

a photo expose of tenement life in New York City

whose chosen method of combating social problems

His images of dangerous living conditions in tenements

led to laws which regulated building safety.

Other muckrakers targeted the corruption in industry

Some focused on the unjust treatment of racial minorities.

In 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson published a book

which discussed the mistreatment, violence

and broken treaties that indigenous Americans had faced

at the hands of the U.S. government and white settlers.

against the lynching of black men in the South.

many Gilded Age reformers attempted to remedy the problems

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