Prior to industrialization, the government took a Laissez Faire approach to the economy. Aggressive business tactics and the treatment of employees forced government intervention. How did the government intervene?

In simple words, the given question relates to the gilded age. A philosophy that prevents government interference in the environment is laissez-faire liberalism. It implies that when what the legislation does is secure the interests of people, the prosperity is best. 

The federal government took substantial steps during the Gilded Age to change the societal as well as economic environment of the West. By constraining Native Americans to settlements and punishing those who resisted as state adversaries, the state replied.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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napoleon the third became a empire in 1873 also known as the era of the franco-prussian war.