The Industrial and Progressive Era

The state and federal legislation and judicial decisions affected the efforts of the farmers and the workers to improve their position in society between 1880 and 1920 by setting up laws to protect the rights of the farmers and to protect the working conditions of the workers. Farmers would have to suffer from a battle with the railroad companies as they attacked the farms with systems of long short hauls and frequent rate changes. To protect the …

…the skin to improve the lives of Americans by delivering out new inventions to the public. However, these two groups fought their way to improve their low position in society and establish themselves as the most important people in American society. The red, being the blood of the workers, the blue, being the tears of the children, and the white, being the pale, wrinkled skin of the farmer, come together to create a powerful union--America.