america the prosperous

America the Prosperous: Both Good and Bad Benjamin Franklin once quoted, "No gains without pain." I feel this quote is perfect to describe the 3rd American Revolution because America is prosperous today; but where we are today, is and outcome of us going through many struggles in the late 1800's to gain the greatness we have now. The outcome of the Civil War was won by the Union side, which decided that the way of …

…of life today. The 3rd American Revolution brought on more technology, wealth and power, but at many expenses. Poor urban workers worked under harsh conditions and Indians were kicked off their land, but were those expenses worth it? I agree that those were terrible things to do, but those expenses brought us to were we are today and we had to go through those hard times to gain the modern society that we have today.