The business world of large national corporations gave rise to what modern days business consist of today. National brand names, building of national communication and transportation systems, and the railroad, defined this time period. A national market place was created in this nation connecting west coast to east coast together. Technologies changed the way businesses would run forever, managers and shareholders filled the economy.

Alliances between big business and politics, machine politics, lead to a corrupt system of mutual bargaining. New York’s political boss, Boss Tweed, twisted and bought elections, and from this stole lar

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in reading more about the history of the United States, but personally I would have not read the book unless it was assigned. It was very informational though, and I would highly recommend that anyone who would like to learn more about this time period to read it, as it has a comical story affiliated way of telling history.

ge amounts of money from the ignorant. Unfortunately the cities around the nation had become corrupt with such people; the Pendelton Act in 1883 was created to protect jobs with no concern for the party in power. This act helped to denigrate corrupted officials.

The newly emancipated blacks were given rights to vote, and because of this white’s were unsettled. The Jim Crow laws were created to disable blacks from having the same rights as whites through poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses. Prominent African-American leaders like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois gained social status through different approaches to expand black’s ability to become part of the white’s communities.

Growing bigger the businesses started to form monopoly powers, because of this people began to create economic and social groups. Among the groups were Farmers like the Grange, Populists disputed for more railroad regulation, and also Free Silver coinage to create inflation to help debtors. Antitrust regulations came out of The Interstate Commerce Act. Labor unions like the Knights of Labor, and the American Federation of Labor started unions to fight big businesses.

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