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This 9 page paper considers the fact that major economic changes are occurring, and the impacts of these changes. This paper outlines the influence of economic changes on the development of businesses and the shift in political structure. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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major shifts in the way in which government interacted on an economic level, and the increasing action of a centralized government and the creation of an American mass market were
defined by the shifts in control and the increasing correspondence between government action and economic decision-making. The Reconstruction Era of the late 1960s created conflicts between Southern white landowners
struggling to find a foothold in the quickly urbanizing South, and with major shifts in their workforce (from slavery to paid labor), strenuous conflicts developed between Northern radicals and Southern
landowners (Ayers, 1992). The essential abandonment of Southern Reconstruction not only separated North from South, but translated into divisions between business factions and economic control by the government.
"With the destruction of the Southern slaveholders, who before the war had counter-balanced the rising industrialists, it was now industry and finance that dominated the national politics in the increasingly
centralized United States" (Palmer and Colton, 1969, p. 544). Through much of the late 1860s and early 1870s, the government expressed a desire not only for economic change, but
for centralization and control even at a point when expansionism had taken control. The Homestead Act of 1869, for example, provided farming land to individuals willing to settle the
American West, and the move to promote agricultural opportunities challenged the once stable existence of the Southern farmer. Increasingly, governmental action including a focus on Fourteenth Amendment rights, began
to be interpreted not only in support of individual actions, but applied to the protection of business corporations and large land owners, to restrict the impact of the government (Palmer
and Colton, 1969). At the same time, the political shift from the state level to the federal government and an increasing governmental responsiveness also challenged the shape of the
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