American Experience — S30E03 — The Gilded Age

00:00:42 NARRATOR: A vicious cold snap hit New York

00:05:25 but it was becoming a nation of industrialists.

00:10:40 in a small town in Scotland.

00:16:21 on his improbable rise.

00:21:17 who kind of have to make it up on the fly,

00:26:31 and gilded baskets filled with roses.

00:32:23 and it was important

00:37:03 Here he is, this hard-working, smart, ambitious man,

00:41:29 He offered big new ideas

00:46:17 in the 30 years since Morgan

00:51:19 So the only solution is consolidation,

00:56:26 Her father and one brother died fighting for the Union

01:01:08 Republicans had abandoned them

01:05:41 O'DONNELL: Social Darwinism becomes a very powerful idea

01:10:16 "Through the war at last,"

01:15:35 NARRATOR: Coxey and his men had a 700-mile walk

01:20:27 that would pay unemployed workers $1.50 a day

01:24:43 President Grover Cleveland asked Congress

01:28:52 "Well, there's a syndicate that I've put together.

01:33:25 She was warned that she would be cut out of society,

01:38:02 "We will answer demands for a gold standard by saying

01:42:13 "We are the party of business, the party of prosperity,"

01:47:06 They also say, "You prosper because we prosper."

01:52:24 That is a fundamental issue, which is with us today.