Other individuals advocated that the government overthrow the current capitalist system because of its inherit evils. The government legislation passed laws that stopped the abuse of workers and the interference of production. Some of the things that the legislation saw as problematic were unions, child labor, and long working hours. However, there were also people not in the government that tried to solve the problems of the Industrial Revolution as well. People like Adam Smith, Ralph Chaplin, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx attempted to address certain problems and even offer solutions.
There were many differences between the two and each difference created more and more tension until they reached the breaking point of war. An example of one would be the way that their economies’ were set up. The North’s economy was industrial centered while the South’s almost exclusively revolved on agriculture. The way that their economies’ were affected the way that their political parties acted. So the North’s industrial political party (Republicans) would support laws like high tariffs on cotton while on the other hand the South’s agricultural political party (democrats) would vote against.
The fact that peasantry took part in the 1905 revolution (also known as Bloody Sunday)shows that the suspicions of the peasants changing were true and to the Tsar and his government this could have appeared to be a threat because they always feared peasantry development, the Tsar and the Empress especially. However the peasants had not planned to overthrow the Tsar as they supported Tsardom, they only demanded for some changes that would reduce the working hours to 8 hours per day, allow workers to earn minimum wage of a rouble a day and to abolish overtime. From a point of view these demands would seem to be reasonable but to the soldiers these were perverse. When the 200,000 petitioners were instructed to retreat but didn’t because of the amount of people, the soldiers took it as if they were not cooperating and decided to open fire at the peaceful demonstrators. The reason why the soldiers were at liberty to shoot the demonstrators was because the Tsar was not present at the mass demonstration because after he was informed about the potential revolution the Tsar quickly decided to leave St Petersburg with his family to avoid trouble 15 miles away in Tsarkoe Selo.
To the government the whole reason of the law was to guarantee land owners profits of which they had became accustomed to during the war. However opponents of the regime both inside and outside of the regime only saw the law as a class piece of legislation in which the law saved landowners from three things: cheaper foreign grain, stabilised prices and making corn more expensive for the consumer. This concept and idea was not new, a similar law 1804 had been introduced to guarantee 80 shillings a quarter. In spite of this the government had problems to face including riots, petitions and demonstrations. The main protest for this law, was the Luddism riots and machine breaking.
Southern states believed that their way of life was being infringed, meaning that slavery was an important institution for their mainly agricultural based economy. The infringement of their way of life was what really caused the succession of the Confederate states and the Civil War. It has been said that the Civil War is the second American Revolution. In many ways, this statement is accurate. The American Revolution was fought because colonists felt the tyrannical government of Great Britain was abusing their authority, and directly affecting their way of life and happiness.
In which a group of farmers led a armed assault on the national government and because there was no army so a local militia had to stop this rebellion. Needless to say these shortcomings ultimately made the Articles an unfit form of government which is why they are no longer in place today. But the Articles of Confederation had an upside, the idea of westward expansion. Through the Northwest Ordinance the country established a way in which the territory would be divided up into separate states. Another major factor of the Northwest Ordinance was that these new states would
These people challenged the federal bank’s constitutionality (2). He shows the farmers malcontent attitude in this statement, “They mistrusted the central bank, seeing in it both the subordination of the states prerogatives and a federal government that was exceeding its powers”(2). McDonough also feels that the farmers or agrarians could be held responsible for the destruction of the second bank. They were able to do this under the leadership of President Jackson. The failure to renew this second bank charter allowed for a generation of “bank anarchy and monetary disorder ”(2).
This act provided retirement funds, disability insurance and unemployment compensation on a national scale. FDR also made that the value of the dollar was devalued to help stimulate trade with foreign countries and to support competitive practices in terms of business. With the New Deal in place, assistance was provided to businesses and farms and The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was passed to stabilize industry. At the time, The Supreme Court deemed that the Agricultural Adjustment Acts and NIRA were unconstitutional. Many people claimed the programs were socialistic and were worried about having a welfare state funded by the government.
One of the Acts that helped combat this issue was the National industrial Recovery Act, or NiRA, was passed by Congress on June 16, 1933. This law was designed to promote recovery and reform, encourage collective bargaining for unions, set up maximum work hours, minimum wages, and forbid child labor in industry. It did so, and had very limiting effects on industrialists and their businesses’ which meant they couldn’t raise prices and cut wages as they so pleased in times of economic disarray. This helped to settle down overproduction from an industrial standpoint. The Agricultural Adjustment act reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock.
These laws required labeling of foods and drugs, inspection of livestock and mandated sanitary conditions at meatpacking plants (61). Congress replaced Roosevelt's proposals with a version supported by the major meatpackers who worried about the overseas markets, and did not want small unsanitary plants undercutting their domestic market. (62) Roosevelt's clear strength was in foreign policy. Backed by John Hay and Elihu Root, Roosevelt set out to strengthen the world position won by the United States in the Spanish-American War (Pringle 81). His efforts to improve U.S. status and influence won him the hatred of many anti-imperialist groups.