"He had received a tip that a store of government-owned rifles been condemned as defective and with the simplicity of genius he had bought them from the government for $17,500 on one day and sold them back to the government on the next for $110,000" (Boyer 19). Capitalizing on other people’s suffering, oh to live the American Dream. How Morgan was able to sell weapons that he knew to be defective for a profit, I will never know. Maybe he never thought of the hundreds of people that were going to be defenseless on the battlefield and only saw a great opportunity to make some money. Maybe he thought that the military would check the weapons before distributing them to soldiers. Maybe he did not care and figured he would be safe and rich no matter what the outcome of t

When the eight-hour law was passed, it just proved that the government was not concerned with the woes of the working man, because the working man did not have money. The idea of a democracy was false and that the purpose of the country was to promote liberalism. The workers were a vast majority of the population, but because of a lack of education, they were not knowledgeable about politics. They were simply trying to make as much money as possible to support their families. Therefore, the workers themselves were also promoting liberalism, but only because those were the rules of society. As more workers started to make more money and enter the middle class, they cared less about people who were in the working class.

Well, if he was making more money, would he have enough extra money to increase his workers wages? Certainly he had enough money. He was making more money than ever. However, if the slaves in the south could do all of that work without pay, his workers should be grateful that they were making $12 a week while working 12 hours a day. The entrepreneur was a shining example of liberalism, make as much money as one can be any means necessary. When the National Labor Union died, workers were making one dollar a day. The businessman was saving thousands of dollars a day. To him, the end justified the means. Even if the means were to make thousand

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Mason-Dixon Line, Civil War, Labor Union, Rockefeller English, Dream Morgan, JP Morgan, Untold Story, people north, , slaves south, people south, owner sit, money money, run-down houses,