Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s From the late 1800’2 to the early 1900’s, the status quo changed in many different ways. The politics of our nation took a curve ball along with our social and economical views. Businesses changed from small family, competitive ownerships to one man or family monopolizing an entire industry. However, in some people’s eyes, the industrial and political changes took place much more rapidly than social transformations. These gradually became what they are today, making the alterations from slavery and racist or sexist views spread out over time,