The Industrial Boom

The Gilded age was an era in the United States from 1860 to the 1900 filled with corruption, unequal rights, and government dishonor. The United States was influenced by countless people and even machinery that molded the American government and its people. There were three major/general groups that promoted this influence of rise in industrialization. The first group was the robber barons and is the smallest group with the largest influence to the country. . Robber barons like J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie were superpowers of the United States influencing the government and basically just running the country through their economic power. The second group was the government (mainly presidents) and was being influenced by the robber barons to run the country in an economic way and corrupt as well. The third and last group that was being influenced and promoted industrial boom was the American people and the “new immigrants” arriving in the country.
Robber Barons were the biggest promoters during the years 1860 and 1900. They were given too much power in the country gained first by the people and then by the government. With the stories of being “self made men” and accomplishing the “American Dream” robber barons received major attractions and support (in the beginning) by the people. Although they portrayed this to the people they believed in social Darwinism. This was their reason to make monopolies and pools seem orthodox through the support of the people and the robber barons received support from the government. When the government supports powerful economic leaders, corruption is the end result. Robber barons began to see a decline in the support from the people when the government began to take more interest in the money then the actual workers. Rail Road companies had the largest affect in the country. The ability of robber barons to increase the railroad mileage from 30,000 miles to 200, 000 miles gave them even more power in running the country.   This...