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Victorian England

ours. The harvests were not doing well. Cholera reappeared in some towns. When all else was not working, the government turned to Chartism to find new ways of overcoming the depression (Boardman 21).From the 1830s to 1848 there was a general rubric, which was named Chartism. It recorded all the working class protest movements for the People’s Charter, published in England in May 1838. Shortly after Chartism became popular among the major political movements proposed in the 1839 pamphlets. They expressed their unhappiness over the way the working class had no say. Because of the fear of a revolution people realized that economic ties were not the right way to run a government (Carlyle 1).The middle years of the 1890s was a time of depression. The conditions of the business depression didn’t improve until 1897. Most Americans felt that the country was going to improve itself. As the new century started there was great feeling of a better industry (Boardman 21).The best example of modern technology in the late 1800s was the railroad. From 1870-1920 some of the most important confrontations had to do with the railroads, from the nationwide strikes of 1877 to boycotting the Pullman railroad because of the wage cuts, which led to an economic, national, political, and constitutional crisis (Balkin 26).Economics in the US was changing quickly after the close of the Civil War. Year by year change grew faster. In 1894 the US was ranked number one in the value of its manufacturing products. In the 1890s the value of manufacturing products was twice the value of the agricultural products, which were produced. Another change was the way business was run and managed. The one man owned companies were no more. In order to have a successful company there had to be many partners (Boardman 16).The industry was now focused on mass production. Some of the important developments were the manufacturing of firearms with interchangeable parts, grain...

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