During the19th century industrialization and urbanization were at their peaks. With constant labor, and the power to run business anyway one might like, the rich kept getting rich at the expense of the poor. By offering jobs to immigrants at the wages that barely sufficed for the income of a family, cheating people by selling non quality products at quality prices, and demanding long work hours, business owners took advantage of the poor with …showed first 75 words of 1050 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1050 total…and the Meat Inspection Act. The 19th century up until World War I was an era when people began to open their eyes to the corruption of society. For fear of their own well-being middle class Americans began to work on reforms to ‘save America’. Soon it spread up through to the national level and Progressivism has now given us protection against many of the illegal behaviors which were founded by the American industrial machine.