Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s

Part I of Essay
From the late 1800’2 to the early 1900’s, the status quo changed in many different ways. The politics of our nation took a curve ball along with our social and economical views. Businesses changed from small family, competitive ownerships to one man or family monopolizin ....

Part II of Essay
.... Spain in the Spanish-American war. From a nation of small towns and cities and small farms, America became an industrial colossus, with ship-building, rails, steel mills and factories, with a rate of growth that began to attract laborers from around the world. This industrial miracle created huge fortunes, and the relatively equal wealth of the early 1800’s gave way to the fabulous wealth of the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts. It fueled massive immigration, and changed the demography of the country from a predominately English t ....