During the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s an economic and industrialized revolution took place in America. As important natural and manmade resources such as Iron, coal, and lumber had just become easily accessible. Which for most meant an improvement on their living conditions, but for the poverty it meant sustaining their life was going to get harder. The wealthy became wealthier and the poor became the mule of labor. “Those who are above the point of separation are elevated, but those who are below are crushed down,” (Doc 3).
This can be seen through the Estate where the third class were treated unfairly from the other classes, the Enlightenment ideas prioritized the people's rights rather than the nobles' exclusive rights, and the food shortage where high prices ignited an explosion of popular anger in the towns and villages.
Many Americans became frustrated and worried with the wave of poverty hitting the nation, becoming hopeless and living in poor conditions, where “lights were cut off…cut off the water”, and starvation began to take over, creating
On top of the peasants or other lower classes there were
Poor population is still in existence today, and we still retain some public assistance programs for the poor. While no strongly structured programs used back then still exist today, we have created newer and even better ones. (I.E. Food
They were all very desperate. It was all the classes that were desperate not only low and middle even high lass men were struggling to find food ad take care of the family. Some men even left their families because they could no longer support themselves or families. The women tried to make ends meet with what they had but it wouldn’t always work out. Some of the older students would even quit school to support
Readers can infer that poor people were deprived of food and possibilities because of the strong use of pathos and imagery. Also, the substandard jobs were reserved for the poor because they were ineligible of equal opportunities because they were deemed uneducated. Americans still view poor people as being uneducated and wrongfully inferring that as the cause of their poverty. This incorrect thinking leads poor people to have less rights than others because they have to
People of different wealth classes were all able to live in adequate
At that time the remedy for this problem was drafting the poor, uneducated and less fortunate members of society.
Moreover, with the rise of industries and the correlated wealth of their leaders, the pockets of the lower classes especially those of immigrants and farmers dwindled greatly. For example, in Document 2, Charles Loring Brace summarizes the lifestyle of the impoverished simply labeling their communities as “vagrant” and “idle” as these people drowned in “wretched rooms” completing “street-jobs” as a way to supply for their families. This portrayal of these people by Brace demonstrates the difficult life of a worker for even if they were able to come home with something, it was useless to their wellbeing. Ways of living such as those presented in Document 2, led to unions that fought to protect basic rights of those who were powerless such as the National Labor Union and Knights of Labor.
Once the “War on Poverty” was launched, society started to break into havoc because of the sudden interest towards the impoverished. However the impoverished began to protest. The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) was created on December 4, 1967, by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), addressing the issues of unemployment, housing shortages for the poor, and the impact of poverty on the lives of millions of Americans (“Poor People’s Campaign”). President Johnson finally heard their concerns and created more legislations that would benefit everyone. Although most of the Americans who were apart of the higher class still envisioned the impoverished as invisible, some of the them (mainly women) had their perspective changed (Harrington
The growth of consumerism and the Atlantic economy interacted with Enlightenment ideas by helping spread Enlightenment ideas. Enlightenment ideas encouraged change by doubting traditions and standard rules of that current time. Change that came from Enlightenment ideas included educated change, equality change, and reform change. Educated, equality, and reform changes were able to occur because of awareness towards issues that were brought up due to the spread of Enlightenment ideas. Because of the growth of consumerism and the Atlantic economy the Enlightenment idea of education was able to make educated change come about.
During this time, in the Netherlands, social structure was being altered. Wealthy landowners surpassed nobility in the social ranking by holding political positions. At the bottom were peasants who were poor laborers like in any society. The advancement of Calvinism, which promoted humility and an elimination of classes aided in eliminating the class gap slightly in Europe. However, in the Netherlands, the class gap was still very severe.
It reflects the entomic change because it’s a way for merchants to make money. It reflects socially because you must communicate. Three interactions or distinct features I see are, a person bargaining with a merchant, most like for a lower. Price I see two merchants behind the table communicating and last I see two people who are talking most like about what they’re going to buy. An economic change in Europe this period would be that merchants were making money for themselves by selling goods.
There, they joined an already restless class of unemployed people. As the gap between rich and poor, widened, angry mobs began to
