Big Business Environment

Big businesses in the had a huge impact on the economy and politics, yet the way that Americans reacted to these changes was the most prominent way that these large corporation affected our daily lives. The American economy was deeply effected by big businesses, especially the outcome of the modern manufacturing system. The political aspect of our country was also affected by large businesses, they controlled the senate, therefore decide the fate of the nation.
With the modern manufacturing system functioning like a military organization, wealthy men flaunting their riches around, and department stores tempting shoppers the economy of the united states was slowly falling into a economic state of emergency. The modern manufacturing system has been arranged like a military organization and workers have lost their right to be creative in the workplace. In David A. Wells article entitled, Recent Economic Changes and their effect on the production and distribution of wealth and the well being of society, it states that, “the modern manufacturing system has been brought into a condition analogous to say that of a military organization, in which …show more content…
In the political cartoon image by Joseph Keppler, it depicts a large number of big businesses as large white men who look like they could easily sit on the senate and smush them all, that's kind of how it was at the time. If a big business didn’t like what choice the senate was going to make, they would pressure them into it by bribe and threaten to shut down their bountiful corporations. In the People’s Party Platform, July 5, 1892, the political group promises to, “restore the republic to the hands of the plain people.” this shows that our government was at the time completely run by the rich and upper class yet there was a problem and the plain people were the only ones who could stop