Evaluate how much economic changes influenced United States society from 1865 to 1910.
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Between 1865 and 1910 economic change reshaped American society by concentrating wealth in giant corporations, creating an industrial working class that organized to defend itself, and provoking reform movements - even as faith in individual opportunity and limited government persisted.
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The 1900 New York Times piece celebrating the “Captain of industry” was written for an urban, business-reading audience at the height of corporate consolidation, which helps explain why it praises industrialists while ignoring the labor conflict other documents describe.
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Contrast how different groups read the same changes - industrialists and their defenders celebrating progress, workers and Populists attacking monopoly - or connect the reform pressure to the Progressive Era's antitrust and regulation.
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