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The end of the Civil War until the beginning of the Twentieth Century was a time of rapid, all encompassing change for the United States. New methods of industry changed the nation into one that first resembled the modern United States. Big business and commerce became the primary influences for a newer, larger style of government that regulated trade and acted as an arbitrator between industry and the new working class. Cities grew ever larger …

…of industry had made enough the country great, and the electorate was soon to empower the people who had suffered at industries hands in the upcoming Progressive Era. New organization methods had moved the United States from the Jeffersonian model to Hamilton’s model of an industrial state. That model is still with us today, and the great organizations of the United States have been the mold in which the modern world has been cast.