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    During the Interwar period‚ Canada experienced a time of prosperity‚ as well as a time of Great Depression. While Canada was flourishing‚ they fabricated nation building processes that are still used today. During their time of blossoming‚ prior to the Great Depression‚ Canada starting becoming an independent nation‚ developing a military‚ and experiencing economic gain. Canada starting becoming an independent nation during the interwar period by slowly withdrawing from the control of the British

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    The Progressive Era in the United States lasted from 1880 to 1920 and started as a response to the change brought on the country after the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The Progressive Era was a period of social reform caused by industrialization‚ urbanization‚ and social inequality that lingered from the Civil War. After the Civil War‚ when the slaves gained their freedom‚ the Reconstruction Era occurred. A major goal of this time was to guarantee rights to former slaves and create new relationships

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    The tag‚ Industrial Revolution‚ was derived from the term industrialization. Industrialization refers to the process in which a society formerly based on agriculture‚ transforms into one based around manufacturing. Manual labor is turned into mass production and often changes from individuals making a product to assembly lines or machines making that same product. The Industrial Revolution had many significant effects on the development of the Americas such as‚ revolutionizing the way people worked

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    occurred during the early to mid-1800s in which numerous citizens of the United States pushed for reform of various conditions. One specific group that was a driving force for the reconstruction of society included brave and determined women. At the time‚ women were not viewed or treated as the equal counterpart to men. Oppressed and discontented by the treatment of men‚ the women decided that they needed to defend themselves and improve the inequality and wrongdoings in society. The women during this

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    and living conditions during the industrial revolution -Extremely bad. -In the book " The Jungle " by Upton Sinclair‚ the author detailed the appalling conditions faced by the workers of the meat-packaging industry. "There were men who worked in the cooking rooms‚ in the midst of steam and sickening odors‚ by artificial light; in these rooms the germs of tuberculosis might live for two years‚ but the supply was renewed every hour. There were the beef-luggers‚ who carried two-hundred-pound

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    States joining the first world war many of the american men where sent of to serve their country. This led to a shortage of men workers in the industries and to fill their spots woman workers where hired. They worked during poor conditions getting a minimum wage for dangerous work during very long hours‚ but where even so more determined to show what they as women where capable of. (gör om‚ gör rätt - ta in mer om vad de ville sen) The Middle Ages did not accomplish much change in the scientific field

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    Working condition were as bad as those in the Jungle across the us from end of the 19th to the beginning of 20th century. They introduced the division of labor into their meatpacking plants‚ replacing the skilled “all-around butcher” with a “killing gang of 157 men divided into 78 different ‘trades‚’ each man performing the same minute operation a thousand times during a full workday.” The book portrays the objects poverty‚ harsh working conditions and often dangerous unsanitary living condition. The

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    of this time was still singlehanded‚ but that’s when the new developments were starting to appear. In the Renaissance period‚ there was a new self-sustaining freedom of expression which spread throughout much of Europe. The church was still very powerful and its influence was everywhere‚ yet the reformation brought a degree of freedom to religious thinking and some hymns which we recognize today were written in this period. Music styles became more complex with multiple parts for different instruments

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    Inventions during the Industrial Revolution (Anaesthesia) Inventions like the light bulb dominate modern-day history books‚ however‚ anyone facing surgery would have to be compelled to agree with the very fact that anaesthesia was one of the most necessary inventions during the Industrial Revolution. Before the invention of anaesthesia‚ the fix for a given ailment was often far worse than the ailment itself. One of the greatest challenges during that period occurred when Doctor’s had to pull a tooth

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    Humanities Essay Draft The Tokugawa period‚ also known as the Edo period or the Shogunate Era‚ lasted from 1603 – 1867 and was the final period of traditional Japan. During this time‚ Japan was peaceful and politically stable‚ with much economic growth while under the shogunate‚ military dictatorship. The Tokugawa period was founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu and was a period in which the Japanese culture was greatly formed (Britannica‚ 2018). The Japanese culture was greatly sculpted from international

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