Industrialization Dbq Essay

War profits that were invested into the industrialization, helped the economy become stronger. However, industrialization was insanely horrible for the United States during 1865-1900, for the reasons of working conditions, corruption and the boom and bust cycle.
The working conditions in the factories, that the workers faced were scandalous. These horrible working conditions resulted in the workers performing strikes because of unhealthy environments, low wages and overcrowding. Document 2 says that the workers in the factories only have 1 job to do and it shouldn’t that difficult. I say that this document exemplifies that the working condition was just plainly repetitive and the workers got tired of it daily. And so this is bad for industrialization

Document 4 states that all wealthy men have given enough importance to the middle class, that they even have established jobs for them. Well I say that Andrew Carnegie believed in social Darwinism and therefore would not do anything to justify his richness and to help the less privileged. His steel production may have opened up new job opportunities but the jobs were a living hell and so I say that the working conditions for workers in the U.S. were horrible and Andrew Carnegie only supported himself and wanted to look good so he offered jobs in his factory, which were bad. The historical context of this document is connected to slavery because officials blasphemed the opportunities that the slaves would receive when in reality they were faced with a living hell. This is corruption. Document 3 states that the real bosses of the senate were not even the officials but rather the businessmen themselves. I say that for the reason that the men in the background look like bags of money, it indicates that they are filthy rich and with that money the try to influence the senate into wanting what they originally want. And so, this is very bad for industrialization because it concludes that monopolies have all the power and not the senate itself, which then leads to corruption. The author’s purpose in this illustration was to inform his audience about the truth behind the senate and is shown by the fact that the bosses are bags of money instead of normal people and this leads to the senate being influenced by the businessmen who monopolize. This is in fact a totally corrupted form of industrialization. Document 7 reveals even other businessmen were not in favor of monopolies,especially George Rice. His oil company was not competitive enough and so it was monopolized. I say that monopolies were not a good thing because it tore up other companies that were building