period in England as can be seen by her writings. With her knowledge and comprehension of her work in English history‚ she can be undoubtedly qualified as an expert in her field. Understanding the Victorians: Class and Society In 1820‚ Victorian society can be split up into three different classes– upper class (aristocracy and gentry)‚ middle class‚ and working class –they had extremely different lives. In Victorian Britain class is related to‚ but not defined by‚ income‚ which
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Civil War HIS/115 July 24‚ 2011 Civil War 1787 – Northwest Ordinance * Included provisions that outlawed slavery throughout the territory by congress * Created social and economic tension between the North and the South Aug 1846 – Wilmot Proviso * Proviso to prevent the introduction of slavery and all African Americans in any territory acquired from Mexico * Considered to be one of the first actions/events to lead to secession and the Civil War 1846 – The Mexican War
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Leland Pinkham Period Apush Articles of confederation era: * Each state functioned as its own little country * No national currency‚ many state currencies * Paper money issued as a promise for hard specie such as gold and silver * High inflation * Newburgh conspiracy 1783: plan by unpaid continental army officers to force congress to assume powers of taxation over states * Northwest territory: * Ohio‚ Indiana‚ Illinois‚ Wisconsin‚ and Michigan area given
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accept CA as a free state b/c it would upset the delicate balance between free and slave states – so they tried to make CA a slave state or at least extend the Missouri line. - Sensing another compromise was necessary‚ Henry Clay [veteran of the 1820 and 1833 deals] stepped back up and‚ with the help of Stephen A. Douglas‚ came up with the Compromise of 1850. Obviously‚ the big issue was when territories could prohibit
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17th century St. Louise de Merillac Sisters of Charity • 1633 - The founding of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity‚ Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Merillac. The community would not remain in a convent‚ but would nurse the poor in their homes‚ "having no monastery but the homes of the sick‚ their cell a hired room‚ their chapel the parish church‚ their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital." [1] • 1640 - The Sisters assume charge
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slave trade or international slave trade illegal in 1808‚ but it did not hold back the practice of domestic slavery that was becoming even larger in the United States. The act of trading between the colonies in the United States flourished‚ and by 1860‚ the amount of slaves in the United States unfortunately tripled‚ and reached to four million. The expansion of pro-slavery beliefs in the western parts of the United States in addition to the increase in abolitionists in the northern parts of the
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Preservation of slavery in the South was what prompted the Confederacy to secede. While slaves labored over cotton during the 1860s‚ they were supposedly being paid $10 per month to work as a servant. While this was originally created so that the northern states weren’t overrun with black refugees‚ this made the freed men and women want to stay to earn money for the first time
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passion to reach for the stars to change the world”. Harriet Tubman is a pioneer of freedom and inspiration for all around the world today‚ without her determination our society would be a dramatically different place. Around the early 1820’s‚ Araminta Ross‚ known more commonly as Harriet Tubman was born to Harriet Green Ross and Benjamin Ross who were held as slaves in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. She was the fifth born of her nine siblings she had 4 brothers and 4 sisters. Tubman’s
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In the context of the period 1763-1865‚ how far was the American Civil War caused by long term divisions over the issue of slavery? In his second inaugural address in March 1865‚ Abraham Lincoln looked back at the beginning of the Civil War four years earlier "all knew‚" he said‚ that slavery "was somehow the cause of the war." This essay will endeavour to discuss the role of long term divisions caused by the slavery debate in the eventual outbreak of the Civil War. In doing so this analysis
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"The Cult of True Womanhood" by Barbara Welter portrays the situation of women in the United States‚ in the nineteenth century. Where as most women write about fighting for women’s rights in this nation‚ Welter took on the initiative to write about something different. Her role in writing The Cult of True Womanhood came to be educating peoples about the life of a woman in the 19th century. Womanhood according to Welter’s article absorbed the life of domestication with the occupation of the ideal
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