Consider the various reform groups of the Gilded Age
Mugwumps
Radical Republicans
Knights of Labor
AF of L
Populists
How are they the same or different from older reform groups
Jeffersonians
Abolitionists
Groups that spread from the Second Great Awakening
Utopian Communities
What can you account for these differences?
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The various reform groups of the Gilded Age are different from older reform groups in that their goals mainly strive for an improvement in the economy, which in this case, the industry of the North. They are looking at things from a realistic standpoint. On the other hand, the older reform groups want idealism and religiously moral goals. Both want to promote democracy and equal rights for all citizens, such as the Knights of Labor include both women and blacks.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Catherine with her comparison between the older groups and the groups of the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age's main focus stepped away from politics and focused on mainly economy. A comparison between the Utopian communities and the Knights of Labor can be made because they mainly wanted to better society. The difference could be seen in the approaches because the Knights of Labor took more economic approaches by allowing different groups of people to strive for better working conditions. The Utopian communities were more focused on the social aspects of life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the comments that Nia and Catherine posted. The Gilded age was more economically driven while the Older Reform Groups were more politically and morally driven. I also agree with Nia's statement about how the Utopian communities and the Knights of Labor, how both wanted to improve their societies, the difference of time is shown within the approaches, economically and socially.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Elisa that the older reform groups were more morally driven. Like, Catherine said, the older reform groups focused more on religion and had idealistic ideals. However, the newer reform groups of the Gilded Age focused on more materialistic gains. For example, many of the Gilded Age reform groups mentioned in the question worked for workers' conditions. I think the two groups focused on different things because during the Gilded Age there was an Industrial Revolution. Because of this and all the new technology that was developed during this time, people cared more about materialic gain than idealistic values.
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