Chaos and Consequences of American Power

America became a global superpower through pure chaos and questionable choices.

The Gilded Age was basically Rockefeller and Carnegie getting filthy rich while kids worked in dangerous

factories. It took Muckrakers exposing gross meatpacking plants to finally force the government

to pass reforms. We didn't stop there. We used yellow journalism to hype up wars, grabbed islands

for military bases, and justified it all with Social Darwinism. Then we partied

through the Roaring Twenties on credit until the market crashed, leaving everyone

broke in Hoovervilles. From robber barons to breadlines, this era is the definition of learning

the hard way.