The Growth of Government from 1877 to 1920 America better, he would inevitably do it. 5 steps back. The transportation revolution of the 1800s sparked industrialization and the construction of railroads that boosted all other industries, causing an economic boom known as the Gilded Age. From the outside, America seemed like the place to go to make all your dreams come true. But in reality, we were in a time of serious social problems caused primarily by an economy characterized by free market policies, low tariffs and taxes, lower spending, and an indifferent government. This type of economy would ultimately lead to the development of monopolies. These monopolies would then in turn lead to labor uprisings – sparked by the suppression of unions created primarily by unskilled workers – which would contribute to America's rapid rise and fall. An example of this suppression is the Homestead strike of 1892; Due to hostility from the unions, the employer fired all the workers and rehired them on the assumption that there would be no more unions. After the workers began working again, the conditions were still unbearable, so the workers closed the factory. The police intervened, the workers were pushed back and the establishment reopened without a union. On the East Coast, people were also exploited by the government. Following the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, the government began issuing land grants – through the Homestead Act of 1862 – to Americans to live and farm; the only problem was that another culture already lived on the land: the Sioux nation. After the S...... middle of paper......negative impact is the government's response when the stock market collapsed. While the American people were suffering from extreme unemployment and extreme hunger, the government was content to launch "repatriation" campaigns to send undocumented immigrants, mostly Mexican Americans, back to their countries. original. Hoover, President at the time, refused to create any project intended to help American citizens escape the "Hooverville" conditions in which they were forced to live. The government even refused to grant veterans of the First World War the bonus that had been prematurely promised to enable them to live. to survive. Overall, the growth of the American government should have complemented American culture. Instead, due to mass corruption, the influence of big business, and foreign policy, the enormous growth of the federal government has hindered the great success that America was supposed to achieve..

Essay / The Growth of Government from 1877 to 1920 America better, he would inevitably do it. 5 steps back. The transportation revolution of the 1800s sparked industrialization and the construction of railroads that boosted all other industries, causing an economic boom known as the Gilded Age. From the outside, America seemed like the place to go to make all your dreams come true. But in reality, we were in a time of serious social problems caused primarily by an economy characterized by free market policies, low tariffs and taxes, lower spending, and an indifferent government. This type of economy would ultimately lead to the development of monopolies. These monopolies would then in turn lead to labor uprisings – sparked by the suppression of unions created primarily by unskilled workers – which would contribute to America's rapid rise and fall. An example of this suppression is the Homestead strike of 1892; Due to hostility from the unions, the employer fired all the workers and rehired them on the assumption that there would be no more unions. After the workers began working again, the conditions were still unbearable, so the workers closed the factory. The police intervened, the workers were pushed back and the establishment reopened without a union. On the East Coast, people were also exploited by the government. Following the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, the government began issuing land grants – through the Homestead Act of 1862 – to Americans to live and farm; the only problem was that another culture already lived on the land: the Sioux nation. After the S...... middle of paper......negative impact is the government's response when the stock market collapsed. While the American people were suffering from extreme unemployment and extreme hunger, the government was content to launch "repatriation" campaigns to send undocumented immigrants, mostly Mexican Americans, back to their countries. original. Hoover, President at the time, refused to create any project intended to help American citizens escape the "Hooverville" conditions in which they were forced to live. The government even refused to grant veterans of the First World War the bonus that had been prematurely promised to enable them to live. to survive. Overall, the growth of the American government should have complemented American culture. Instead, due to mass corruption, the influence of big business, and foreign policy, the enormous growth of the federal government has hindered the great success that America was supposed to achieve..

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