Harriet Tubman: Harriet Tubman became famous as a performer on the Underground Railroad during the stormy 1850s. She was born a slave on Maryland’s eastern coast‚ she withstood the harsh life of a field hand‚ including ruthless beatings. In 1849 she fled slavery‚ leaving her husband and family behind in order to escape. Harriet Tubman’s birth name was Araminta Ross. Tubman’s conflict to slavery did not end with the outbreak of the Civil War. Her services as nurse‚ scout‚ and spy were asked by the
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personal relationships that were once held between workers. * Factory workers were forbidden by law to form labor unions to raise wages. * 1820s- many children were used as laborers in factories. * With Jacksonian Democracy came the rights of the laboring man to vote. * President Van Buren established the ten-hour work day in 1840. * Commonwealth vs. Hunt- Supreme Court ruling said that labor unions were not illegal conspiracies‚ provided that their methods were honorable and
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very early on in America’s lifetime‚ we have had people that had fled their countries from religious problems until today. Many members of various faiths including Jews‚ Protestants‚ Muslims‚ Hindus and Buddhists came to the U.S. in massive waves from 1840 to 1920. From the foundation of America until the 1900’s‚ Europeans came to America to escape religious oppression and forced beliefs by state-affiliated Christian churches like The Roman Catholic Church and The Church of England. Jews have been discriminated
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is from the the musical time period of the Romantic Era [1820-1910]. He was born in 1840 in present day Udmurtia‚ Russia. He died on November 6th‚ 1893 in St. Petersburg because of cholera. He received training from a teacher when he was younger and he also studied at the Russian Musical Society in 1861. He later studied at St.Petersburg Conservatory. In his childhood he has piano lessons at the age of 5. By the time he was 8 he knew all of the notes ‚just as well
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I think that to a moderate or large extent‚ advances in industrialization had an impact on Great Britain in the 19th century. The industrial revolution was the transition to a new manufacturing process from about 1760 to somewhere in between 1820 and 1840. It included going from hand production to machine production‚ improved water power efficiency and improved steam power efficiency. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain‚ and some of the most important technological advances were British. The
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 Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3‚ 1793‚ to Quaker parents in Nantucket‚ Massachusetts. When she was 13‚ her parents decided to send her to a co-ed school in New York. She ended up meeting her future husband‚ James Mott at this school. From 1808 to 1810‚ Lucretia got the job as an assistant teacher at Nine Partners school. During this time‚ her family moved to Philadelphia‚ where she would live for the rest of her life. James married Lucretia in 1811. He worked in the cotton
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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines‚ new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes‚ improved efficiency of water power‚ the increasing use of steam power and development of machine tools. The transition also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal. The Industrial Revolution began
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Chinese Immigration to the U.S. First Chinese to arrive in the U.S. was around 1820. Subsequent Chinese immigrants who came from the 1820s up to the late 1840s were mainly men. In 1852‚ the ratio of Chinese males to females in California was 1‚681:1. Due to the lack of Chinese women in the U.S. at that time‚ a number of men intermarried with Americans of Eastern European descent. However‚ the majority of male immigrants lived as bachelors. The first major immigration wave started around the
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Clothing Later Victorian (1870-1890) After the death of her husband in 1861‚ Victoria went into seclusion‚ and though still deeply respected as sovereign of a great empire‚ she ceased to influence fashion as directly. The somber colors that came into fashion are attributed to the fact that the British Court remained in mourning. Black became a popular fashion color in this period‚ not only worn for mourning. However dress forms changed significantly. After decades of full skirts‚ a new silhouette
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1. This map shows the possible migration routes for the first Native Americans that settled in between 15000 and 60000 years ago. These settlers came from Asia across either the Aleutian Islands or Bering Strait and settled in North and South America. 2. When the Europeans first came to the Americas‚ there was a huge amount of different tribes with a variety of religion‚ language‚ and society. These tribes were spread across from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Northern Canada to at least
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