a DJosh Wang Mr. Raphael US 1 History Honors 23 March 2013 Dorothea Dix: Mother of American Asylums Dear Admissions office at the University of the United States‚ From 1824‚ Dorothea Dix has proved to be valuable to social reform in the United States. After visiting multiple prisons and seeing the mentally insane housed together with criminals‚ Dix began a national movement to treat the insane in more benevolent ways. Her religious beliefs also influenced her to recognize the need for rehabilitation
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) completed his masterpiece‚ Symphony No. 9 in D minor‚ Op. 125 in 1824. During nineteenth century‚ Beethoven’s Ninth was an icon of symphonic genre universally. In 1840‚ a talented genius‚ German composer‚ Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) composed Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major Op. 52‚ “Lobgesang” After its premiere‚ this work performed continuously and enjoyed by audience with success. However‚ Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang received criticism: that his work lacked “inner necessity”
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learning but was encouraged by his father‚ Juan Jose Maria Erasmo Seguin‚ who was a political ally of Stephen F. Austin. When Juan grew older‚ he helped his mother run his father’s post office while he and other people served in Congress from 1823-1824. Three years later on December 1828‚ Seguin was selected as alderman which had shown great potential. He served on different electoral boards until he was elected alcalde‚ also known as mayor in Spanish‚ on December of 1833. Juan Seguin’s military
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leads Adams to stand in opposition to the idea leading to the creation of a new coalition. Developments from this are the spoil system‚ National Party Conventions and creation of the Whigs party whom elected popular military heroes in the campaign of 1840. The Whigs party established that winning comes first and principles come second. A third party of entrepreneurial politics came about with the rise of the Republican Party. Their coalition was built on an anti-slavery platform and pro-tariff/pro-railway
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Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt D.O.B-D.O.B: September 6‚ 1817 - September 19‚ 1893‚ in London‚ England and came to Canada in 1835 to work for the British American Land Company. Family Information: On February 9‚ 1848‚ Galt married Elliott Torrance‚ the daughter of John Torrance‚ of Saint-Antoine Hall‚ Montreal. She died on May 25‚ 1850‚ shortly after giving birth to their only son‚ Elliott. Later he married her younger sister‚ Amy Gordon Torrance. Amy gave birth to 7 daughters and 2 more sons. They
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poetry in support of the Neapolitan Constitution of 1819. He settled in London in 1824‚ where in 1826 he married the daughter of a fellow Italian expatriate and man of letters; Frances Polidori had trained as a governess‚ and she supervised her children’s early education. Gabriele Rossetti supported the family as a professor of Italian at King’s College‚ London‚ until his eyesight and general health deteriorated in the 1840s.
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Chapter 9 The Confederation and the Constitution 1776-1790 The Pursuit of Equality The Continental Army officers formed an exclusive hereditary order called the Society of the Cincinnati. Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom- created in 1786 by Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers; stated that religion should not be imposed on anybody and that each person decided his/her own faith. The Philadelphia Quakers in 1775 founded the first anti-slavery society. The 1st Continental Congress called
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the Maysville road that would’ve helped the union‚ but since he didn’t approve he vetoed it. President Jackson did a fantastic job of expanding democracy. In his presidency he expanded the amount of voters from 27% in the election of 1824 to 58% in 1828 and by 1840 80% of adult white males were voting. Jackson thoroughly believed in “equal protection and equal benefits”‚ and that
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A SELECTION OF PAST AP U.S. FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS: Part 1: Colonial Period to Civil War Colonial Times 1607 -1775 1. From 1600 -1763‚ several European nations vied for control of the North American continent. Why did England win the struggle? (73) 2. In the seventeenth century‚ New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were their aspirations‚ and to what extent were those aspirations fulfilled during the seventeenth century? (83) 3. In the two decades before the
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Impact of Sectionalism Sectionalism during the 1800’s- 1840’s‚ caused a grand impact on American politics and policies. Sectionalism began to grow early in the 1800s‚ right after the War of 1812. As more factories were built‚ the South and the North grew further apart. When more people moved to the West‚ the country began to divide even more in this way. The north wanted and federal rights and the south wanted state rights. Each section wanted different things therefore caused problems in government
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