{"id":49828,"date":"2021-09-11T19:13:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/during-the-gilded-age-american-democracy-seemed-to-be-held-in-the-hands-of\/"},"modified":"2021-09-11T19:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T19:13:22","slug":"during-the-gilded-age-american-democracy-seemed-to-be-held-in-the-hands-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/during-the-gilded-age-american-democracy-seemed-to-be-held-in-the-hands-of\/","title":{"rendered":"During the Gilded Age, American democracy seemed to be held in the hands of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Gilded Age, American democracy seemed to be held in the hands of a few corporations and other special interests. As a result, Americans felt like they lacked the civil liberties granted in the United States Constitution, such as freedom of speech. American Progressives believed in using the federal government to give Americans their freedom, so they proposed changes that reformed the American political, economic, and social system. Please respond with an informed comment. Your grade depends on the quality of your response.Question <br \/>Discuss one of the areas where there was a demand for more government regulation and control during the Progressive Era. What were the Progressives trying to fix from the Gilded Age? Explain how the Progressives tried to fix the problem (historical details). Did it work? Remember to provide historical details and analysis (why and how something happened?). Find a\u00a0specific example of modern America and compare it. Explain and analyze the modern example and how it relates to the historical past. Provide the information and details of your modern example. <br \/>Politics (corruption, expanding democracy, etc.) <br \/>City Municipalities (water, gas, electricity, etc.) <br \/>Society (urban poverty, education, immigration, alcohol use, etc.) <br \/>Business\/Monopolies <br \/>350 words or more (the better) <br \/>Provide historical evidence\/examples\u00a0to support your opinionUse several sources to support your argument <br \/> \u00a0For this Opinion Piece, you can just use Google.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Gilded Age, American democracy seemed to be held in the hands of a few corporations and other special interests. As a result, Americans felt like they lacked the civil liberties granted in the United States Constitution, such as freedom of speech. American Progressives believed in using the federal government to give Americans their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-49828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}