Gilded Age politics could be accurately described by having complete disregard for the citizens of the era

Gilded Age politics could be accurately described by having complete disregard for the citizens of the era. Citizenship was supported by unions and busts of trusts but nothing was done to encourage the rise of their class. James Bryce, a British political commentator, states in his article, “For the end of the war coincided with the opening of a timee of swift material growth and abounding material prosperity in which industry and the development of the West absorbed more and more of the energy of the peopele. Hence a neglect of details of politics such as had never been seen before.”(Doc 1). What Bryce said aimed towards a foreign audience, immagrants. He attempts to talk about how the American government failed to continue thier involvement in political affairs. After the Civil war the US changed. Slavery was banded, there was now growth of materialistic things, a bunding material propensity, and the west got more and more people. All was positive until the government did nothing about the mass f people in the West “The first promotes wealth; the second, is citizenship. Our young men can no longer go west; they must go up or down. Not new land, but new virtue must be the outlett of the future.” (Doc 2)