Evaluate the effectiveness of the social gospel movement in addressing the important social issues of the industrial age. in your answer, reflect on the immediate solutions as well as long-term effects.

The Social Gospel Movement originated during the second half of the 19th century. It grew from the ideas of religious protestant leaders, who wanted to associate good deeds to the possibility of achieving salvation.

The Industrial Age was an ongoing period of time during the appearance of the Gospel Movement in which there were numerous technological developments in manufacturing techniques that increased the output of many industries. Regarding personnel who worked in the factories, there were many excesses committed by business owners towards workers during this age, as the concept of labor rights was still inexistent. The Social Gospel Movement was key in influencing the improvement of the working conditions of the working classes. In the short term, it would immediately cut all excesses committed against the overall health and well being of the working class. In the long-term, it promoted what would become the legal framework for labor law.

populist movement, in u.s. history, politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the middle west and south that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. thus in 1892 their leaders organized the populist, or people's, party, and the farmers' alliances melted away.