cal freedom. The machine age had begun. The great West was being settled and the United States seemed to have unlimited resources. People found they could by their own efforts rise from rags to riches. Previous to this time there had been a well developed caste system, as there is in some countries even today. If a person was born in a low social class, he had to stay there the rest of his life. But now here was glorius freedom and people began to think that if a person stayed poor it was his very own fault. If he didn’t succeed then he hadnot worked hard enough, or he had been a spendthrift, a drunkard. Proverty ivas a sin in those days. Do we begin to see something that sounds familiar?

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