Abstract
IT IS WELL KNOWN that the fifteen years following the Civil War constituted a period of tension, unrest, and even of some modification of the basic character of American society. Outside the defeated South, the war brought a degree of prosperity, prosperity induced speculation, speculation bred corruption in government and in business, and this in turn led to financial dislocation, widespread disillusionment, and an increasingly vocal demand for reform in politics and in the economic structure of the nation. No section of the country was wholly immune to the currents of discontent which followed the exposure of corruption in government and the panic of 1873. It was the position of the workers, however, which caused the most comment and aroused the greatest fear, because their reaction was as unprecedented as, in some instances, it was violent.
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