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    Harriet Jacobs a True Woman

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    Nulman‚ Franny‚ Harriet Jacobs and the Sentimental Politics of Female Suffering‚ EHL‚ Vol Random House Dictionary‚ “Domestic”‚ Accessed February 8‚ 2013UR: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/domestic Welter‚ Barbara.‚ The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860‚ American Quarterly‚ Vol [ 2 ]. Dickerson‚ Glenda. “The Cult of True Womanhood: Toward a Womanist Attitude in African-American Theatre”. Theatre Journal‚ Vol. 40‚ No. 2 (May‚ 2988): 179. Accessed February 2‚ 2013‚ URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3207655

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    The Industrial Revolution was of great importance to the economic development of the United States. The first Industrial Revolution occurred in Great Britain and Europe during the late eighteenth century. The Industrial Revolution then centered on The United States. The Industrial Revolution itself refers to a change from hand and home production to machine and factory. The first industrial revolution was important for the inventions of spinning and weaving machines operated by water power which

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    The Newgate Novel

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    Newgate novel From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the Newgate Calendar‚ a biography of famous criminals published at various times during the late 18th and early 19th centuries‚ but usually rearranged or embellished the original tale for melodramatic

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    Dark Age of Nursing

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    MIDDLE AGES)       During the late middle Ages (1000-1500) -the crowding and poor sanitation in the monasteries nurses went into the community. During this era hospitals were built and the number of medical schools increases.       Between 1500 and 1860 (A.D.) -the Renaissance all affected nursing. As nursing was not valued as an intellectual endeavor it lost much of its economic support and social status. The nursing conditions were at their worst and have been called the dark period of nursing.

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    women suffrage

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    unequal rights. In 1869 Anthony and Stanton was distinct from equal rights movement. During the civil war Elizabeth Cady Stanton concentrated her efforts on abolishing slavery‚ afterward she was more out spoken in promoting women suffrage. In the 1860s‚ the feminist movement moved to New Zealand. Muller noted that men and women at that time didn’t have equal political and economic rights as was true in other countries. Women could exercise only limited power in the economic structure of the country

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    Apush Culture Unit 2

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    individual culture. It was no longer a colony of England but a free country and it had to have it own culture. During the time period of 1790 to 1860 American Culture developed from and offspring of British culture to an American Culture. There were expressions of music‚ theater‚ art and literature which all made the American culture grow. In 1820 a British critic sneered‚ “Who reads an American book?” He was right at the time because there was no american literature. All of the books had

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    and frightened the south‚ so up to the election of Lincoln‚ the tension built up to a climax and finally broke out to become a civil war. A major difference between the north and the south was the legality of slavery‚ according to compromise of 1820 the line of 36 ’ ’30 ’ north divided this country into two parts‚ the southern parts contained with a large amount of plantations and slave owners. In the north the increasingly flourished international trades‚ the developing industrialization and

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    6 prompts

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    Essay Prompts and Info. 1. Assess the validity: “Jacksonian Democracy was a myth”- Thesis: Some argue that Jacksonian Democracy was a myth but examples such as the spoils system‚ the universal white male suffrage‚ and increase in voter turnout prove that it was in fact Democratic. Paragraph 1: Spoils system- rewarded political supporters with public office‚ gave more “common” people a chance to be a part of the public office and lessened the amount of “literate” men. Paragraph 2: Universal

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    History of electricity

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    (I did this one myself as a boy...) • Davy’s battery 1820 Hans Christian Örsted (1777-1851) discovers that an electric current can cause a compass needle to change directions. • Örsted’s experiment 1831 Michael Faraday (1791-1867) builds the first electric generator‚ the "Faraday disk"‚ proving that rotary mechanical power can be converted into electric power. The race for a practical generator begins. • Faraday’s disk 1832-1860 Various generator schemes are tried‚ mostly employing permanent

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    Opium War Research Paper

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    captured the capital Peking in 1860 and forced China’s total surrender. The Treaty of Tientsin allowed foreign embassies in Peking‚ a closed city at that time‚ opened eleven more coastal cities to foreign trading‚ and completely legitimized the opium trade. It also allowed westerners to travel in the Chinese interior‚ gave Christian missionaries the right to proselytize and hold property throughout China‚ and lowered even further import duties on British goods. In 1860 similarly imposed treaties were

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