Progressivism During The Gilded Age
Adam EL-Maadawy
Hst.245/4489
Russ Morisi
3/16/11/Midterm
How effective was the political system of the gilded age and in what ways did progressivism include both democratic and anti democratic impulses?
During the Gilded Age there came a time of economic stability and expansion that brought the country a surplus of wealth. What made this happen was the Second Industrial Revolution that came about post-civil war time, with the building of railroads and being able to transport raw materials from east to west and visa versa. Although the times from 1870-1890 were fiscally dominant the politics in which business was executed was not for the faint of heart. The term “Gilded” is expressed by Mark Twain means “covered with a layer of gold, …show more content…
The educational, and medical aspects of society were funded and mostly run by domestic state governments, although the federal government was limited in influence its parties democrat and republican both favored two different views of economics. Republicans were advocates of high tariffs in order to protect the sales of domestic goods but both parties were high advocates of the eastern United States and the banks. The trust in banks and the deliverance of power gave eastern industrialists economic ease but the aggregate blue collar Americans declined in already plummeting wealth.[3] The lack of a strong government involvement in big business at the time gave way for businessmen known as the “robber barons” such as Carnegie, Rockefeller, and others to corner their own respective markets by creating monopolies in order to make them the sole providers of a certain good to regulate prices at a rate that could not be contested. Buying out other companies in the same field also known as “horizontal economics” was usually the standard way of achieving this goal of an economic monopoly; this made the gap between wealth and poverty larger and gave inspiration for readings like Progress and …show more content…
The Progressive Era was a mixed bag of democratic and anti-democratic acts that conflicted themselves, the government had infringed on Americans freedom of speech by censoring certain things in the media, it also was responsible in aiding the creation of unions that represented the blue color worker of middle to lower class America. It’s involvement in society was missed due to its lack of appearance in the Gilded Age, but its inability to protect the basic rights that every man, woman, and child are born with contradicted what America was and still
Hst.245/4489
Russ Morisi
3/16/11/Midterm
How effective was the political system of the gilded age and in what ways did progressivism include both democratic and anti democratic impulses?
During the Gilded Age there came a time of economic stability and expansion that brought the country a surplus of wealth. What made this happen was the Second Industrial Revolution that came about post-civil war time, with the building of railroads and being able to transport raw materials from east to west and visa versa. Although the times from 1870-1890 were fiscally dominant the politics in which business was executed was not for the faint of heart. The term “Gilded” is expressed by Mark Twain means “covered with a layer of gold, …show more content…
The educational, and medical aspects of society were funded and mostly run by domestic state governments, although the federal government was limited in influence its parties democrat and republican both favored two different views of economics. Republicans were advocates of high tariffs in order to protect the sales of domestic goods but both parties were high advocates of the eastern United States and the banks. The trust in banks and the deliverance of power gave eastern industrialists economic ease but the aggregate blue collar Americans declined in already plummeting wealth.[3] The lack of a strong government involvement in big business at the time gave way for businessmen known as the “robber barons” such as Carnegie, Rockefeller, and others to corner their own respective markets by creating monopolies in order to make them the sole providers of a certain good to regulate prices at a rate that could not be contested. Buying out other companies in the same field also known as “horizontal economics” was usually the standard way of achieving this goal of an economic monopoly; this made the gap between wealth and poverty larger and gave inspiration for readings like Progress and …show more content…
The Progressive Era was a mixed bag of democratic and anti-democratic acts that conflicted themselves, the government had infringed on Americans freedom of speech by censoring certain things in the media, it also was responsible in aiding the creation of unions that represented the blue color worker of middle to lower class America. It’s involvement in society was missed due to its lack of appearance in the Gilded Age, but its inability to protect the basic rights that every man, woman, and child are born with contradicted what America was and still