1790. It when on for many years and membership even rose in 1820
One way that politics/society is different today as in 1939 is that in 1939 voting wasnt the same for some people, but today everyone has rights to vote. One way that is the same is that males have been president since 1939- today.
Not much really.
The government did not really govern the big business and they could basically do what they pleased. But as the journalists and writers and the workers started bringing all the bad things the big businesses were doing to the light of day the government started intervening just a little. A landmark law passed at the time would be the <span> Sherman Act that was against the trusts. </span>
In 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Five years later, Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi took the oath of office. It would be nearly another century, 1967, before Edward Brooke of Massachusetts followed in their historic footsteps.
