was the gilded age good for amweican?

The Gilded Age brought about a lot new inventions. However, the treatment of workers, Indians (Native Americans), and unfair business practices that came with it was not good. Therefore, the Gilded Age was very bad for America. First, the Gilded Age treatment of workers was very bad. For example, the workers needed to work all day long and they didn’t have any free downtime to do their own things. Also, the children needed to work too. They were very young, like seven to ten years old, but they all needed to work with big machines. Therefore, all the workers only got paid a little money because all the business people could do whatever they wanted to do. Second, the Gilded Age treatment of Indians was very horrible. Such as Indians did not have good places to live at. They could only live at places in the desert. The desert is a very hot and dry place and does not get a lot rain. Therefore the Indians could not go out to hunt for animals to eat or to keep as pets. Also, the Massacre of Wounded Knee killed a lot of Native Americans. The White settlers killed the Native Americans because they wanted to have their land. Then the Assimilation happened, so Native Americans could not practice their traditional beliefs and languages. Basically, the settlers wanted them to “act white”. Therefore, the Indians did not have any freedom, and always needed to follow the white man. Third, the Gilded Age unfair business practices made a lot money for the business through bad business practices like exploiting the people. For example, many companies decided to work together in an arrangement called trust, and the trusts set higher prices. Then people could not afford to buy the food they needed. Most of the food was bad for our body because it was all the fried food. Robber Barons who is one of the richest people in the U.S. History, said that if people were rich then it meant that they were good, but if people were poor it meant that they were bad. A lot of businesses went out of business because him, and then he became very unpopular with a lot people. Finally, the Gilded Age was very bad for America because of all the bad treatment of the workers, the Indians, and the unfair business practices that happened in America.