The end of the Civil War until the beginning of the Twentieth Century was a time of rapid, all encompassing change for the United States. New methods of industry changed the nation into one that first resembled the modern United States. Big business and commerce became the primary influences for a newer, larger style of government that regulated trade and acted as an arbitrator between industry and the new working class. Cities grew ever larger …showed first 75 words of 3857 total…

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