What New Challenges Did the Rise of Big Business and the Robber Barons Pose to Establish American Beliefs, Practices and Values Between 1850 and 1900?

The rise of big business in industrialism and Robber Barons posed towering difficulties over established American beliefs, practices, and values. Its influence greatly affected all aspects of traditional American thought in such a short time that America had to accept and embrace these changes or be swept away. New ideas and customs, such as the science of economics and the perversion of traditional American values into material pursuit, established by industrialism, were primarily practiced by the Robber Barons; but, in order for industrialism to remain profitable, they needed the support of the majority. Therefore, they pushed their ideas to the forefront of everyday American life by controlling public thought through the early media. The main religious thought, embraced in America from 1850-1900, came from various Protestant camps that connected the new industrialist ideas from big business with Scripture. …