POLITICAL POLA 2100

Evaluate the extent to which reform movements changed United States society in the period from 1877 to 1914. The Civil War radically transformed the economy and set in motion the GIlded Age. America in the 1890s was in a deep economic depression. This clash between traditional and modernity peaked political activism by farmers, and violent conflicts between industrial workers and employers that transformed into a clash between rival visions of America’s future. But by 1900, the United Stat...