industrial revolution
Justin Grzechowiak
Essay #1 During the second industrial revolution the U.S. was expanding and advancing rapidly. This ultimately led to a lot of corruption and most importantly a very unequal distribution of wealth amongst the people. The factory owners of this time period were living lavishly while their hard working employees were struggling to put food on the table. The gap between the rich and the poor was growing just as fast as the country itself. Something needed to be done about it. Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888) brought fourth an unheard of idea at the time. Bellamy’s book supported a system where everyone is equal, and there is no gap between the rich and the poor. As you can imagine this was extremely popular amongst the hard working middle class. This book also talked about good working conditions and essentially a perfect society. For the many stuck in factories for over fifty hours a week this sounded great. The “middle class” at this time actually consisted of very poor people. These people did not even realize how unjustly they were being treated. “the injustice of the nineteenth century’s industrial system has given way to a socialist utopia.” This is stated in document three when Dr. Leete is describing the new world to Julian West, who has just awoken from a hypnotic sleep of one hundred and thirteen years. The above quote really did show the public all the injustices of the time period. The “middle class” people also loved Bellamy’s vision because it revealed factory owners evil ways that went untouched for so long. Although the average people supported Edward Bellamy’s ideas of common wealth in this book there were others who opposed it, the rich. Andrew Carnegie’s book The Gospel of Wealth (1889) supported the wealthy man’s idea of life, a separation of classes. His book states “help those who are willing to help themselves” as seen in document two. By this Carnegie shows that he supports the vicious idea of
Essay #1 During the second industrial revolution the U.S. was expanding and advancing rapidly. This ultimately led to a lot of corruption and most importantly a very unequal distribution of wealth amongst the people. The factory owners of this time period were living lavishly while their hard working employees were struggling to put food on the table. The gap between the rich and the poor was growing just as fast as the country itself. Something needed to be done about it. Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888) brought fourth an unheard of idea at the time. Bellamy’s book supported a system where everyone is equal, and there is no gap between the rich and the poor. As you can imagine this was extremely popular amongst the hard working middle class. This book also talked about good working conditions and essentially a perfect society. For the many stuck in factories for over fifty hours a week this sounded great. The “middle class” at this time actually consisted of very poor people. These people did not even realize how unjustly they were being treated. “the injustice of the nineteenth century’s industrial system has given way to a socialist utopia.” This is stated in document three when Dr. Leete is describing the new world to Julian West, who has just awoken from a hypnotic sleep of one hundred and thirteen years. The above quote really did show the public all the injustices of the time period. The “middle class” people also loved Bellamy’s vision because it revealed factory owners evil ways that went untouched for so long. Although the average people supported Edward Bellamy’s ideas of common wealth in this book there were others who opposed it, the rich. Andrew Carnegie’s book The Gospel of Wealth (1889) supported the wealthy man’s idea of life, a separation of classes. His book states “help those who are willing to help themselves” as seen in document two. By this Carnegie shows that he supports the vicious idea of