Between 1865 and 1900 in America was a wild time. With cowboys, miners, Indians, immigrants, and freed slaves. All groups trying to achieve the American dream. A dream of democracy, freedom, justice, opportunity, equality, and human rights. Chasing the American dream is what makes this country great, even today. For some groups of people though between 1865 and 1900 the American dream was nothing but a dream. A dream that would never happen. Nothing but a myth for many American in the late 1800s. Not even a myth for just American citizen but for the people of North America in general.
The most prominent and denied group of Americans who would try to achieve the American dream but fail is African Americans. Before 1865 African Americans were not even considered people. They were slaves, brought from African just to work for nothing and be treated awfully. African Americans after gaining their …show more content…
They are without doubt the smallest of these groups. They are “Robber barons” and a robber baron is a big time company owner who makes a lot of money off of other peoples hard work. Names you may recognize would be John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. They owned the biggest corporations at the time in America. Some of these corporations such as railroads, oil, and banking were owned in monopoly by men like these. They made billions of dollars while the people who worked for them made next to nothing. The robber barons made the American dream come true for themselves but at the same time denied the ability for so many others who worked ten times harder than the robber barons on a daily basis. The robber barons made the American dream so much harder to achieve. If robber barons paid their workers fairly and distributed the extreme wealth they had right now I would not be explaining why the American dream was not possible, but explaining why it was
The most prominent and denied group of Americans who would try to achieve the American dream but fail is African Americans. Before 1865 African Americans were not even considered people. They were slaves, brought from African just to work for nothing and be treated awfully. African Americans after gaining their …show more content…
They are without doubt the smallest of these groups. They are “Robber barons” and a robber baron is a big time company owner who makes a lot of money off of other peoples hard work. Names you may recognize would be John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. They owned the biggest corporations at the time in America. Some of these corporations such as railroads, oil, and banking were owned in monopoly by men like these. They made billions of dollars while the people who worked for them made next to nothing. The robber barons made the American dream come true for themselves but at the same time denied the ability for so many others who worked ten times harder than the robber barons on a daily basis. The robber barons made the American dream so much harder to achieve. If robber barons paid their workers fairly and distributed the extreme wealth they had right now I would not be explaining why the American dream was not possible, but explaining why it was