Rapid industrialization may have brought our nation to the forefront of world economy and power but in the process it negatively affected American society. With industry, and the potential for huge amounts of money to be made, a new class was created, the capitalist. These wealthy entrepreneurs found ways to grab the new business opportunities and gain power and control that the lower classes could not hope to achieve. The average American did not profit, in fact, inequality increased, skilled craftsmen were replaced by unskilled workers and trust in the government to represent the American people was lost. A great division between the employers and the workers began to surface. The one thing all these groups had in common was the need
