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    Women In The 1800's

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    which eventually came to be a great issue to women. Women’s questioning of their equality helped spark the beginning of the Woman’s Right’s Movement. This paper will go over how women were paid significantly less than men during the 1800’s‚how most women in the 1800’s got married to men for financial stability‚ how women were more decorative and sentimental‚ women’s entrance to the world of politics‚ and some different viewpoints of women earning more rights in general. This movement had abundant

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    There were numerous advancements in the medical world in England throughout the 1800’s. Many things that are being used in hospitals today were developed in this time period‚ such as anesthesia‚ x-rays‚ and many other things. The Germ Theory was an important discovery for the medical field in the 19th century. Louis Pasteur proved that the souring of milk was caused by living organisms. He would boil liquids known to ferment in a “swan necked flask” and let them cool‚ he found that none of them

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    perfect example. Racial animosity grew in both the North and South‚ and in many instances led to physical violence. The era of slavery should have been called the era of inhumanity. Slavery was inhumane‚ barbaric‚ and ultimately disgusting. In 1800 the population of the United States included 893‚602 slaves‚ of which only 36‚505 were in northern states (Phillips 18). Slaves were treated as if they were a piece of meat. The defined characteristics of slaves are as follows‚ " their labor or

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    The agrarian era ended in the early 1800’s to give rise to the industrial revolution (Healey‚ 2003). This new society wasn’t centered on land but instead industry and commerce. It was the market and the owner ship of capital wealth that dominated in this Paternalistic society. This new economy had no place for slaves in it‚ with the majority of labor being placed in cities and the increasing difficulty of the labor. The age of man and machine pushed out the old ways of dominant-minority relations

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    #3.The critics that were chosen‚ both wrote their reviews in 1855. A lot of changes have happened during the early 1850’s‚ especially for African Americans. Social practices in that day were also drastically different from the ones of modern-day America. Those social practices regard the roles in society of people based on class‚ gender‚ age‚ and race. In the 1850’s several historical events served as a stepping stone for African Americans. Everything started when in 1850’s The Fugitive Slave Law

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    When looking back to the history of immigration‚ there were always huge differences because of the different areas and special periods. Sometimes it seemed like a flood; people were trying to escape quickly. Sometimes it also seemed like a trickle when most of the people did not want to leave their motherland. No matter why those immigrants came or whatever their goals were‚ there was only one reason. The reason was because America had something they wanted or they did not have. It could be about

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    Child Labor in 1800s

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    Imagine you’re a six year boy‚ who instead of going to school for an education‚ you’re working fifteen hour shifts in dangerous working conditions just to help support your family. This was the case in the 1800’s for children living in the United States. For years the glass-bottle industry had been taking advantage of children by having them work in terrible conditions. Some of the concerns surrounding child labor were the long hours‚ hazardous working conditions‚ and the strenuous work for a low

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    Monopolies In The 1800's

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    charging way too much for products. Also monopolies were so powerful they cause competitor companies to lose money and run out of business. Then they made monopoly illegal in the 1890’s was passed as the Sherman Antitrust Act. Work industries in the 1800’s were extremely dangerous‚ they didn’t have any equipment to keep them from getting hurt. They had children working also working there to get into cramped spots in machines and sometimes they would lost limbs and even their life. The work place was

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    method of execution‚ along with boiling‚ burning at the stake‚ drawing and quartering‚ and beheading. By the 1700s‚ the number of crimes punishable by death rose to 222‚ which later would induce reforms to Britain’s death penalty statutes during the 1800s. Britain has a long history of the use of the death penalty with American ideals at its foundation. Although death sentences have been carried out throughout human history‚ the first execution in the United States was of “Captain George Kendall in

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    Political Machines In the 1800’s the process of industrialization began in the U.S. The creation of many new inventions and the economic structure of this era made this possible. This caused millions of people to migrate to the United States from different country’s in search of better paying jobs‚ and a better living standard. The excessive growth of people in city’s and the diversity between rich and poor in this society were the main benefactors to the rise of political machines. This

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