How Did The Political Factors That Affect The Second Industrial Revolution
There were many social,political and economical factors that came from the second industrial revolution. Many of these factors that became or helped shape the second industrial revolution include things such as inventions monopolies immigration and the formation of labor unions and politics of the gilded age. The second industrial revolution brought us many inventions that helped shape america and make it what it is today.
Some of the inventions that came from the industrial revolution in fact turned around to help it such as louis sullivan's invention of the skyscrape this helped with both urbanization and the second industrial revolution because it could help to have more room to have workers. A major invention that helped with the second …show more content…
The way in which bimetallism results in political factors is that it was the focal point of the election of eighteen ninety-six where William Jennings Bryan faced off against William Mckinley. Bryan who was a democrat who had populist beliefs and supported bimetallism loss to William Mckinley a republican who supported bimetallism but once elected mckinley supported the gold standard where gold is ran roughly around sixteen gold coins equal a dollar as to silver being thirty four coins to equal a dollar. Then Bryan delivers the cross of gold speech referred to the gold standard as bad and said “you will not crucify man upon your cross of gold.” The other political factor is the Omaha platform was the direct election of senators government ownership of railroads graduated federal income tax bimetallism australian secret ballot. Only a few of these were adopted the ones that were adopted were the direct election of senators graduated federal income tax and the australian secret ballot. This was debated over for quite some time. Before they were truly adopted the federal income tax would somewhat hurt both the business and would hurt the workers because before that was adopted what you made just went right in your pocket or the
Some of the inventions that came from the industrial revolution in fact turned around to help it such as louis sullivan's invention of the skyscrape this helped with both urbanization and the second industrial revolution because it could help to have more room to have workers. A major invention that helped with the second …show more content…
The way in which bimetallism results in political factors is that it was the focal point of the election of eighteen ninety-six where William Jennings Bryan faced off against William Mckinley. Bryan who was a democrat who had populist beliefs and supported bimetallism loss to William Mckinley a republican who supported bimetallism but once elected mckinley supported the gold standard where gold is ran roughly around sixteen gold coins equal a dollar as to silver being thirty four coins to equal a dollar. Then Bryan delivers the cross of gold speech referred to the gold standard as bad and said “you will not crucify man upon your cross of gold.” The other political factor is the Omaha platform was the direct election of senators government ownership of railroads graduated federal income tax bimetallism australian secret ballot. Only a few of these were adopted the ones that were adopted were the direct election of senators graduated federal income tax and the australian secret ballot. This was debated over for quite some time. Before they were truly adopted the federal income tax would somewhat hurt both the business and would hurt the workers because before that was adopted what you made just went right in your pocket or the