1. American Populist Movement And Progressive Era
... money began to replace morality in national politics. The transformation of landscape and cityscape projected people into new material surroundings causing a metamorphosis of personal values, political ideas, and group identities (Fink xv). Massive production and the new factory system altered the character of the originally agriculturally oriented society into a consumer culture. Americans ... began to have time off from work, spending it enjoying sports, shopping, dancing, and music (Fink 325). Historians exalted, "a collapsing older social divisions based on region, ethnicity, class,...
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