slope to civil war”1. After this act was passed Kansas was called “Bleeding Kansas” because many anti‚ and pro slavery protesters argued and fought over the future of their state. Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska scheme contradicted the Missouri compromise of 1820 and this resulted in “Many southerners who had not conceived of Kansas as slave soil rose to the bait. Here was a chance to gain one more slave state. The
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primarily from a sense of the policy or community responsibility. Inherited English tradition‚ required towns to take care of their poor. Industrialization and immigration brought poverty of a new kind and on a new scale to American cities in the 1820s‚ intensifying in the economic crises of the late 1830s and the 1850s. The number of people needing help increased dramatically‚ in part from the isolated nature of all industrial jobs and in part from recurring financial panics.
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Morse- invented the telegraph. Workers and "Wage Slaves" * Impersonal relationships replaced the 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
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Florence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic‚ almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child‚ Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman‚ admired in her families elite social circle and was expected to make a good marriage‚ but Florence had other concerns.
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upper-class women who came to bring aid to the “sick poor” (Monteiro‚ 1985‚ p. 184). In her words‚ “there is no such thing as amateur nursing” and “nursing was an art requiring an organized‚ practical‚ and specific training” (Monteiro‚ 1985‚ p. 184). In 1860‚ Florence began a nurses’ training program at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London. Her training program was the first of many of its kind in England and in the United States (Chitty & Black‚ 2011‚ p. 30). Florence would go on to pursue social reform in
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Crime and Punishment Criminology Rawphina Maynor Mr. Arata Saturday AM Crime and punishment through time has made some dramatic changes. The earliest form of written code is the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi‚ though most of western law comes from Ancient Rome. In 451 BC the Roman Republic issued the Law of the Twelve Tables that constituted the basis of Roman law. Theft and assault were crimes committed against individual and required the victim to prosecute the offender before the appropriate
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Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was born in Florence‚ Italy‚ on 12th May‚ 1820. In her late teens she felt that she was being called by God for something other living the life of the upper class. That other cause was nursing and after her father permission‚ decided to go to Kaiserwerth‚ Germany to study. She was there up until the Beginning of the Crimean War‚ which she aided heavily by tending to the wounded and sickly. After the war Nightingale she began making pamphlets and publishing
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was located near Bayou Sarah‚ where he decided to build his home (LeBlanc D11). Gen. Bradford sold the home in 1820 and it changed hands several times after that (LeBlanc D11). “For decades visitors‚ owners‚ and neighbors have reported seeing dozens of plantation phantoms.” William Winter is only one of the plantation’s many ghosts. He was a lawyer who was master of the Myrtles from 1860-1871. One dreary‚ January day an unknown horseman shot Winter in the chest on the back veranda. He ended up
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Geography of Italy Italy is a long peninsula; slightly larger than Arizona andit shaped like a boot. It is surrounded on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the east by the Adriatic. Italy borders Austria‚ France‚ Vatican City‚ San Marino‚ Slovenia‚ and Switzerland.The Apennine Mountains form the peninsula ’s backbone; the Alps form its northern boundary. The largest of its many northern lakes is Garda (143 sq mi); the Po‚ its principal river‚ flows from the Alps on Italy ’s western border and
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Katz’ article The Invention of Heterosexuality was an interesting read‚ albeit in my view a somewhat baffling oversimplification of a very complex topic. While I admire him for putting himself out there in his postulation of how he supposes heterosexuality was “invented‚” there‚ too‚ I am at a loss. His election of the term “invention” seems just as hair-brained as his hypothesis. Still‚ for the sake of argument‚ I will bite... I liked Katz’ introduction to his theories and particularly his use
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