The racial and ethnic hostility grew among the rich and the poor, the whites and the nonwhites, and the women and men. The results of this plague bifurcated the American society.

The elite wealthy society from the colonial period to the Civil War perceived themselves as having a special place in society. This attitude formed the basis for inequality, for economic opportunity and political power was solely within the reach of these chosen few in the mid-19th century. By 1910, there were more millionaires in the United States Senate alone than in the whole nation before the Civil War. Efforts to destroy such boundaries developed during the time when rapid economic growth engulfed society. Although the upper class would isolate themselves from the rest of society in their private organizations and clubs, by attending their prep schools and colleges along with all its anti-Semitic practices, they were soon to be threatened by a nation rapidly becoming c

Racial conflicts between African-Americans and whites have existed since our nation's inception. It was no different in the late 19th century through today. Although 367,000 black soldiers served during the war, only 42,000 saw combat in France. Most had the tasks of supply duties and were stationed to labor battalions. The glory of war was left for others. In August 1917, Houston Texas, black soldiers renounced segregation and abuse by police.

Word of such reform inspired many from all over the world to come to America. Immigrants flourished into America by 1914 to the population of over three million. Certainly, the dream of equality inspired them to enter the land of opportunity. However, racial and ethnic hostility was still present and required much improvement.

The closing decade of the 19th century was burdened with different forms of violence that slowly simmered from the unrest of many of the poor who built-up our country with their blood and sweat from hard work for meager wages, until it boiled into a growing day-to-day hostility toward the wealthy controllers of industrialization.

entralized economically. The cry for a better life for all could not be muffled.

The American Federation of Labor, through its president Samuel Gompers, to this day is credited with its crusade to reform the work place in society. Between 1917 and 1920, the AFL consisted

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