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    couldn’t afford much anyway. Many who came in the great immigration wave of 1890 through 1914 were not quite prepared for what they found. Sadly‚ with wealth and power‚ come monopoly markets and unethical behavior‚ some bosses were acute‚ consider “robber barons‚” some of the most horrible and tyrant employers. Which was a big culture shock for new

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    building and the women were trapped to suffer a horrible death. After the Industrial Revolution‚ the Gilded Age came along. Railroads were invented and they only benefited ambitious men who ran businesses because it was an easier way to travel. Robber barons from poor families were taking over the Gilded Age. People such as Rockefeller and Carnegie

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    for having unsanitary working conditions and reviled many problems. Factories were unsanitary; The Jungle told consumers details about the death and disease that reside in the meat packing industries (Doc 1). Meat industries were controlled by robber barons that ran the companies with unethical business practices; they would try to raise profits at the consumers’ expense. They would pay corrupt meat inspectors‚ have unsanitary slaughter houses and feed consumers disease filled cows (Doc 2). The food

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    The Industrialization Era and American Society During the times between the end of the Civil War and World War I (WWI)‚ industrialization had evolved to great extents‚ transforming the once agrarian American society to one that would rapidly move toward the manufacturing of goods. For many‚ this would entail more luxury and comfort‚ but for others‚ the less fortunate‚ perhaps a glimpse of hope for a better future than they left behind. This tremendous change in technological advancement would bring

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    An Essay on Capitalism While we as a nation have been seriously struggling through the economic crisis since the latest crash in 2007 that brought our economy to the brink of disaster there has been‚ to say the least‚ a bitter‚ partisan battle between the left and the right‚ the Republicans and the Democrats‚ the Tea Party and the recently named 99 percenters. The division is sharp an reasonably precise to the point that you are on one side or the other unless you can walk a razor blade with bare

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    power gave eastern industrialists economic ease but the aggregate blue collar Americans declined in already plummeting wealth.[3] The lack of a strong government involvement in big business at the time gave way for businessmen known as the “robber barons” such as Carnegie‚ Rockefeller‚ and others to corner their own respective markets by creating monopolies in order to make them the sole providers of a certain good to regulate prices at a rate that could not be contested. Buying out other companies

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    As the production level in European industries increased the working conditions for the poor decreased. "Since the beginning of industrialization‚ large numbers of women and children worked in factories. Mill owners could pay these workers less than they did adult men‚ and they were easier to manage" (Burgan 35). The wealthy factory owners capitalized on women and children by giving them significantly less wages than those given to men as well as overworked them to a level of near death. The working

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    the workplace‚ the workers would take power to control the conditions of their lives."[4] In 2004‚ Zinn edited a primary source companion volume with Anthony Arnove‚ entitled‚ Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Columbus to the Robber Barons[edit] Chapter 1‚ "Columbus‚ the Indians‚ and Human Progress" covers early Native American civilization in North America and the Bahamas‚ the genocide and enslavement committed by the crew of Christopher Columbus‚ and incidents of violent colonization

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    -Settlement Houses: example: Hull House -Poverty was a huge issue in the city -Robber Barons were attacked very much‚ but believed that they had a commandment from God to help the poor (THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH) -The downside of this is that they actually blamed the poor for their condition -The Robber Barons believed the poor could not help themselves -Salvation army was established in the US in 1879 -Many reformers want to fight this wide

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    Artemio Cruz has used his novel to show how Mexico has been transformed and molded into its present state through the use of his character Artemio Cruz. Fuentes uses Cruz to bring together a historical truth about the greedy capital seekers‚ robber barons‚ if you will‚ who after the revolution brought Mexico directly back to into the situation it was in before and during the Revolution. Fuentes wrote the novel in nineteen sixty-two‚ shortly after the Cuban Revolution. Fuentes is able to express

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