Response to Governor Mugwumps(not-Anthony) Questions

1. "Firstly, are there any other civil reform movements involved in the fair, if so, how? If not, name one and why not." The one thing I don't see at all in the book that leads to the need for civil reform is the increasing immigration of Europeans and Chinese into the U.S..
2.  "Secondly, in what ways do we see the industrial revolution and it's roots present in this fair."  The sections of the novel explaining the fight for which electrical current will be used for the fair in direct or alternating relates to the new industrialization age of America. The invention of using electricity for light and it's other future purpose changed the future of the U.S. in that aspect. Many other innovations are thought of as well, such as the Bessemer process and standardizing the railroads.
    
3. "Thirdly, has the economic panic influenced the attitude of the citizens to the fair? If so, how? If not, why not?" There is a passage in the novel in which people who see the fair's grounds see practically nothing. Because nothing is there even though the dedication day for the fair was only months away. As the fair degraded in quality of it's building material and quality of it's building, so did the U.S. economy. The Tribune spoke of how the fair was a death trap for workers in how it was poorly crafted and many men were being fired as well.