Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s

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with ship-building, rails, steel mills and factories, with a rate of growth that began to attract laborers from around the world. This industrial miracle created huge fortunes, and the relatively equal wealth of the early 1800’s gave way to the fabulous wealth of the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts. It fueled massive immigration, and changed the demography of the country from a predominately English to a mixed population, that changed the culture and values of the country.

At the same time, most people who had “arrived” economically attempted to maintain the status quo by looking back to the social forms of earlier times. People imitated the plantation life in the South, or the great houses on the Hudson in the North, and wealthy people imitated the manners of Europe, if they could. Politically, they attempted to halt the immigration of “foreigners”, and gave favor in the immigration laws to the northern Europeans, their “own kind”. Among the poor and the farmers the ...

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