resourced‚ the Freedmans Bureau did help the creation of schools for African Americans. It was aided in this task by charity workers from the North and by religious organisations. In 1865‚ 95% of ex-slaves were illiterate. This had dropped to 81% in 1870 and to 64% by 1890. African-American education was enhanced further with the creation of higher education institutions‚ such as Howard University and Fisk University in 1866-67. African Americans also benefited from the Civil Rights Act of March 1866
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PART III: DOCUMENT-BASED ESSAY Part B Directions: Using information from the documents provided‚ and your knowledge of United States history‚ write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction‚ several paragraphs‚ and a conclusion. Historical Context: After the Civil War‚ the United States became a much more industrialized society. Between 1865 and 1920‚ industrialization improved American life in many ways. However‚ industrialization also created problems for American society. Task:
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places such as New Orleans and California. 1865-1870: The ’long drives’ - first ’open range’ ranch Realising that there was a great demand for beef in the north of the USA‚ the Texans drove their cattle north on a long drive to Sedalia in Missouri‚ where they were loaded onto trains for Chicago. Two Texas ranchers‚ Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving‚ pioneered a second trail‚ to Denver in Colorado‚ where they sold their cattle to gold miners. 1870-1885: The ’open range’ There were huge areas
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“I is for India‚ Our land in the East‚ Where everyone goes To shoot tigers and feast.” (Ames 278) John Beames’ “Civilian Memoirs” gives a slight reference of what Ames was trying to convey‚ being that he was in Indian during that time‚ and that piece was just about his day to day life‚ more so touching on why India was ‘the preferred place to live in’. The piece was more based on the work environment as to Beames and his comrade George Faulkner chose to move to India for the same reason‚ less government
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Jane Addams‚ a pioneering social worker‚ helped bring attention to the possibility of revolutionizing America’s attitude toward the poor. Not only does she remain a rich source of provocative social theory to this day‚ her accomplishments affected the philosophical‚ sociological‚ and political thought. Addams was an activist of courage and a thinker of originality. Jane Addams embodied the purest moral standards of society which were best demonstrated by her founding of the Hull-House and her
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The Old Man - A deaf man who likes to drink at the café late into the night. The old man likes the shadows of the leaves on the well-lit café terrace. Rumor has it that he tried to hang himself‚ he was once married‚ he has a lot of money‚ and his niece takes care of him. He often gets drunk at the café and leaves without paying. The old man is a regular in the café‚ and though he sometimes forgets to pay‚ he’s generally a good customer. We mostly learn about the old man from the conversation of
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Balny d’Avricourt‚ Adrien‚ L’enseigne Balny at la conquête du Tonkin: Indochine 1873. Paris: Éditions France-Empire‚ 1973. 324 pp. Armand di Biencourt‚ Au Tonkin‚ 1884-1885-1886. Paris: Imprimerie générale Lahure‚ 1898. 81 pp. Mark Philip Bradley‚ Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam‚ 1919–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press‚ 2000. xiv‚ 304 pp. Pierre Brocheux‚ The Mekong Delta: Ecology‚ Economy‚ and Revolution‚ 1860–1960. Madison: Center for
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Mark Twain: The Man of his Century Samuel Clemens more often spoke of by his pen name Mark Twain‚ was born on November 30‚ 1835 in the small town of Florida‚ Missouri‚ as Haley’s Comet blazed through the sky. Mark Twain was an American humorist and author‚ he was considered to be the funniest man on the planet. Mark Twain was a truly brilliant performer when he went on his lecture circuits‚ and could enthrall virtually any audience. He wrote a whole slew of very successful books and short stories
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riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. Though not explicitly described‚ he is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott’s National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. Its origins are obscure and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings. The character of Humpty Dumpty was popularised in the United States by actor George
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Cohen / GENDER DIVISION GENDER & SOCIETY / April 2004 10.1177/0891243203262037 OF LABOR THE GENDER DIVISION OF LABOR “Keeping House” and Occupational Segregation in the United States PHILIP N. COHEN University of California‚ Irvine This article explores the effect of women’s movement into the labor market on the gender segregation of work‚ using the Current Population Survey from 1972 to 1993. The author includes as working those respondents who were “keeping house” and codes keeping house as
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