America Expanding In Comparison To The Last Chapter Summary

4) In what way do you see America expanding in comparison to the last chapter? Use any examples from the textbook.
America started to expand after the reconstruction era when the country started to become more industrialized, immigrants who poured in from foreign countries, social and cultural changes in a more urban lifestyle. The worries started to fade away and people started to become in tune with each other. They started to embrace each other and help each other out socially, culturally, financially, and emotionally. For example, “the reformers changed their attention to moral and political issues such as the Mugwumps, which were a group that worked to end corruption in politics”(Divine, page 448). This group was made after the abolishment

As we can see in the chapters before the family dynamics was completely different in a sense of being together all the time, doing chores and farming together. As the country started to develop more and more, families only saw each other after working a job from 9-5pm. As Divine states, “in factories and working offices family members rarely worked together”(Divine, page 449). The families were divided in a working class family as the city life progressed. For working class families this had to take a toll on children because in a natural setting children would be at school for most of the time while their parents worked. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case, children looked up to their parents achievements and accomplishments and some would start work at 13 years old. They rather have worked in factories then attend school, because factories were better at the time (Divine, page 451). To be fair, the construction of factories and jobs being administered to the working class was a great thing it was also ruining children’s future to prosper. Children should be going to school, to get an education and having better jobs to be equivalent to the middle or upper class in the