H. Holmes Impact On America's Culture

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After the Gilded Age, Holmes’ impact on America’s culture changed how America was seen. Instead of a country that didn’t have any problems, he showed the corruption and shadiest of American businesses. H. H. Holmes brought to the surface that America was not as perfect as it was seemed to. When Jack the Ripper was terrorizing London in the late 1880s, many Americans were happy that no one like him was in America, but Holmes showed that there indeed was whose crimes were more disturbing than Jack the Ripper. From his early childhood Holmes’ life was dark as he was bullied by his classmates and his father was unloving towards him. His criminal life was disturbing, which was again something people wanted to cover up. Lastly his trial where his