What are examples of class struggle during the Colonial, antebellum/Civil War, and Industrial Progressive era?
Colonial Era … to be a member of the House of Burgess in VA, one had to be self-supporting, they weren’t paid, so only the wealthy could belong.
During the Civil War rich people could buy themselves out of being drafted or pay for someone else to take their place.
In the Industrial Revolution, the wealthy regularly oppressed the workers and strikes were the result, such as the Homestead strike.
