Summary Of Devil In The White City

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The Gilded Age transformed the U.S from a nation mostly relying on small, very remote farms to a nation driven by large-scale industry. This industrial boom required massive amounts of labor, which was quickly supplied by immigrants and the rural population. Cities soon became overcrowded and as a result greatly grew in size. The local governments were unprepared to manage cities of such magnitude, both in population and area. Therefore, many sectors of the cities lacked any source of law and order, regulation, and uniformity as compared with the more “managed” sectors. In Devil in the White City, Larson describes a moment where a horse carcass was floating in the water supply in one of the lower-income sectors. This example clearly shows the