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    structured. Horizontal hems added focus to skirts. For shoulder emphasis they used wide lapels. The waistline dropped down to the waist and a wide belt was often worn. People continued to wear pelisses and Spencer jackets for warmth. From 1830 to 1840 the sleeves became enormous from the fullness at the shoulder lowering toward the elbow. The waist continued to be in it natural position. The necklines became very wide and bodice lines had a distinctive V-shape. Ankle length skirts became full and

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    Between 1750 and 1850 was really the age of revolutions. Including the big changes in political revolutions like the American and the French Revolutions‚ there were changes in land use for agriculture‚ transportation and also warfare....also known as Industrial Revolution...this had revolutionary changes in the economic system and global balance of power. Revolutions have seen most of the world within a deep interconnected economic system. To begin between 1750 and 1850‚ most European colonies became

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    Galindez AMH 2010 American History 31 October 2012 Westward Expansion of the United States To what extent is it accurate to claim that the ideal of manifest destiny was a motivating factor in the western expansions of the United States? The 1840s was a time of great territorial expansion during which the United States fought to annex Texas‚ acquire the Oregon territory‚ and conquer California and New Mexico from Mexico. As the people sought reasoning behind their territorial ambitions‚ a belief

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    South differ in the 1840s? In the 1840s‚ the North and the South differed because the North had slaves and the South didn’t. 2. How did Southerners react to the Wilmot Proviso? The way the Southerners reacted to the Wilmot Proviso was that they were mad because the government was taking what Southerners thought was their property. 3. What was Stephen A. Douglas’s role in passing the compromise of 1850? Stephen A. Douglas’s role in passing the compromise of 1850 was he was trying to

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    On the Discovery Trail with Epidemiologists of the Past John Snow and the Cholera Outbreak of the 1840s‚ Question 1-4 Cholera is a severe diarrhoeal disease that can kill within only a matter of hours if left untreated. During the 19th Century‚ there was an immense epidemic of Cholera that effected London‚ which killed thousands of people. Q1) Dr. John Snow was a British physician who found the reason as to why there was an outbreak of Cholera. He hypothesised that Cholera was a water-based disease

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    differences and many similarities in their fashion. These decades are the 1840’s and the 1880’s. The 40’s were known for large skirts. The 80’s was known for its large bustles in the back‚ a famous example is in the painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte which is found in the Chicago Art Institute. There were both similarities and differences in the clothes‚ undergarments‚ and hair of the 1840’s and the 1880’s. In the 1840’s the dress style stayed the same. The skirt was bell shaped. The dress had

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    Southern congressmen completely disagreed and went against it. The Compromise of 1850 was set to hopefully smooth these disputes over by supporting the idea of popular sovereignty‚ western lands having the right to determine by themselves whether they would be free or slave states. The Free-Soil Party also had a big impact. They opposed slavery’s expansion in the Western territories in the late 1840s and early 1850s. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and Dred Scott Case (1857) decision highlighted the

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    After the Nullification Crisis‚ America proved victorious in the Mexican War of 1848‚ which meant the acquisition of even more land. Next‚ Henry Clay developed another key compromise‚ the Compromise of 1850 which provided yet another distinction between the American North and South. Under the compromise‚ Utah and New Mexico could now operate under popular sovereignty. In the North‚ no states could operate under popular sovereignty. With this‚ the North

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    From the years 1800-1850 the nation was full of battles and prosperity. Territorial expansion was a cause in most of the battles‚ but also gained prosperity for the nation. There were many impacts on national unity between those time periods‚ but the main impact was territorial expansion. This is true because of the Louisiana Purchase‚ the purchase of Oregon territory‚ and the Mexican War. The Louisiana Purchase was the most important event of President Thomas Jefferson ’s first Administration

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    Gabrielle Sollecito September 31‚ 2012 Mr. Simone APUSH Alexander Hamilton’s plan for a National Bank created controversy in our country. The argument was whether it was “constitutional”. Despite warnings from George Washington two political parties were created. Hamilton led the federalists and Jefferson led the Democratic-Republicans. After the War of 1812 our country entered an Era of Good Feelings in which there was only one political party‚ the Democratic-Republicans. Only

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