1. The Guilded Age
In this era, the United States became an Industrial powerhouse amongst the world, becoming the most industrialized nation on the planet. ... However, due to the fact that these foreigners would work for such low wages, despite the conditions, caused two things to happen: the owners of the factories to become more wealthy now that they have achieved practically free labor, and the American workers developed a fear and hatred for foreigners, as they thought (as often times this proved to be correct) the foreigners would be stealing jobs from them. ... But because there were in fact so many peopl...
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