Large scale industry boomed in the late 19th century as a result of the growing urbanization and immigration of the expanding metropolises of America. Historians often refer to this period of time as the “Gilded Age” from a Mark Twain novel of the same name with details of a time with growing societal problems with a light golden surface. While the industry provided many jobs for the American workforce, the employers handed these jobs to immigrants and other minority groups for extensive work hours and little pay in relation. The South had their cotton and textile mills that former slaves and poor whites would work whereas European immigrants would flock to the North to work in factories. These mills and factories were often led by a select
