The middle class that emerged during the industrial revolution consisted mainly of

The trans-continental railroad was finished sometime around this time, so train travel change, and was also fixed so that a train could take you anywhere you wanted in the united states.

              many important ancient principles in the american government came from ancient grecian and ancient roman ideas. from the greeks, we have a democracy form of government and citizenship. democracy began as an oligarchy where a few people power for the majority of the people. ancient citizenship excluded women, foreigners, and slaves. ours is reformed to include women and foreigners.  from the romans we have our republican representatives.  does this ?