In America's colonial days, few citizens, including many important founding fathers never thought to be that a role of the government was to manage and administer enterprise and business. However later on in our AMerica's career, the case of Gibbons vs Ogden powerfully supported and committed the United States government the control and the role to regulate the American economy, mainly business within states. As time passed industries eventually started togrow due to protective tariffs and thediscovery of popular resources in the west. The Civil War also played an abundant function as it led to the mass demand of industrialized goods such as rifles. Eventually in the late 1880s,companies had become so large that many people began to think they should be regulated.
Presidents of this time period are oftenforgotten and rightly so, many were corrupted, careless, or both. Thevast majority of Presidents were Republican because of an insignificantly larger voter base. Many Republicansfavorablyinsulted the Democrats and Southerners of causing the Civil War. Many soldierss and African Americans helped the Republicans. Republicans were mainly known for promoting protective tariffs and the business class. Their voter base was made upmainly of Catholics and immigrants. The Democrats of the era were mostlyfocused in the South and helped many of the same enterprise policies that the Republicans did. However the two parties were much more very much alike then during the era before the War between the states. Neither party favored farmers nor took decisive standpoints onkey issues. This phrase was particularly difficult for farmers who had to deal with the ruthless conditions of the Great Plains as well as other economic issues such as extreme protective tariffs.
The arise of the industry led to the rise of effective businessmen such as Rockefeller and Carnegie who often had a betterforce on America then the vast majority of the politicians of the period, even the Presidents. Many businesses didalot and anything to survive and wereextremely cutthroat. This was established on the principle of Social Darwinism or survival of the fittest. Unhappily, businessmen often bought off politicians for support, which also led to a considerable amount of corruption during the time period. Congress and the Senate were both bribable and careless which led way inbarely any legislation being passed. Eventually acts such as the Sherman Act were accepted which prohibited certainrotten processes and led to the reform corporations and businesses alike.
The three main issues of the time essential were the tariff, currency reform, and civil service reform.