The lowest point in American politics is considered to be by many the Gilded Age. In this time period, America was in an industrial growth and had to make sure that the laissez - faire type government did not hinder its success. To contribute to having the government not intervenes in the economics of the country was the chain of useless presidents who did insignificant acts in office and because of that are scarcely remembered. These presidents totally ignored social and economic issues which troubled the lower classes and help the upper classes gain more power. With the lack of presidential leadership and the intervention of the government to help big businesses get even bigger the politics of the Gilded Age failed to deal with the real issues.
Since the government would not intervene with most of the economics of this time then that meant that the big businesses had the power to do anything they wanted no matter who it hurt, which was mostly the lower working classes.
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Samuel GompersIn Samuel Gompers Forum, "Letter on Labor in industrial Society", he tried to explain how the industries did not care for the lower classes by stating that, "Year by year man's liberties are trampled under foot at the bidding of corporations and trusts, rights are invaded and law perverted." Samuel went on to say, "You [a federal judge] may not know that the labor movement as represented by the trades unions, stands for right, for justice, for liberty," which meant that as the lower classes tried to fight back against the big businesses the government pushed them down to make sure the upper classes had no problems. Knowing all of this, it raises the question on how much of a laissez - faire government was America at that time?
The government...