cultural history of America from 1876 to 1915. Schlereth’s book does not focus on the wars or political leaders during the era but instead emphasizes on the everyday life of the ordinary American at the time. Schlereth also goes into great detail about the dramatic change that occurred in the workplace‚ housing‚ and communication. Schlereth manages to explain why the changes in the Victorian era also affected the social life of today’s Americans. Between 1876 and 1915‚ Americans experienced a revolution
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APUSH Key Terms Ch. 25 1. Jane Addams the founder of Hull House‚ which provided English lessons for immigrants‚ daycares‚ and child care classes 2. Florence Kelley reformer who worked to prohibit child labor and to improve conditions for female workers 3. Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) 4. Walter Rauschenbusch New York clergyman who preached the social gospel‚ worked to alleviate poverty‚ and worked to make peace between employers and labor unions. 5
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burnings Three events in 1915 = catalysts to the revival of the Klan: * The film The Birth of a Nation was released‚ mythologizing and glorifying the first Klan. * In 1915 Jewish businessman Leo Frank was lynched near Atlanta after the Georgia governor commuted his death sentence to life in prison. Frank had been convicted in 1913 and sentenced to death for the murder of a young white factory worker named Mary Phagan * The second Ku Klux Klan - founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons at
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France‚ degree from Berkley in California -Very different leader in Mexico Revolution‚ Emiliano Zapata‚ from central Mexico (Morelos); Mestizo Nauhtl-Speaker “It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.” -Pascual Orozco (1882-1915)-managed to make good fortune for himself in mining in Chuhuahua and Pancho Villa (1878-1923) from Durango Centaur of the North Northern Mexico economy very different from Central Mexico’s -Victoriano Huerta- universally thought of as a villain
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British Raj * Newfoundland * New Zealand * Union of South Africa Russian Empire(1914–17) Kingdom of Italy(1915–18) United States (1917–18) Kingdom of Serbia Kingdom of Romania(1916–18) Empire of Japan Belgium Kingdom of Greece(1917–18) Portugal (1916–18) ...and others | Central Powers German Empire Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Bulgaria(1915–18)Co-belligerents Jabal Shammar ...and others | Commanders and leaders | Raymond Poincaré George V Nicholas
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Therefore‚ Bethmann-Hollweg persuaded senior naval officers to exclude neutral ships from the order – especially ships from America. On February 22nd‚ 1915‚ the U-boat commerce war started. In March 1915‚ 5‚000 ships entered and left British ports. Only 21 were attacked. As a result of this‚ neutral shipping that had been put off by the declaration‚ soon resumed trading once again believing that they were all but safe from attack
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BELGIAN BRUSSELS (1890) 6:14 AM 2 comments -January 28‚ 1890- Rizal left Paris for Brussels‚ capital of Belgium -Two reasons impelled Rizal to leave Paris‚ namely (1) the cost of living in Paris was very high because of the Universal Exposition (2) the gay social life of the city hampered his literary works‚ especially the writing of his second novel‚ El Filibusterismo LIFE IN BRUSSELS · Rizal was accompanied by Jose Albert when he moved to Brussels. They lived in a modest boarding house
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Name Mr. McCann Honors World History 22 March 2014 Genocides of the Twentieth Century Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention of the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy‚ in a whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnical‚ racial‚ or religious group; as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring
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America have a stronger organizations together because of their exchanging; United States endeavored isolates over the British Isles and a significant number of their boats were sunk or harmed by German mines confused for gatecrashers. In February 1915‚ Germany advertised the announcing of unlimited fighting against boats in any case if nonpartisan; in the event that you were to enter battle area around Britain your boat would be assaulted. Germany proclaimed a German cruiser had sunk the William
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the City port bound for Liverpool May first‚ 1915. With only 1924 people on board the British government had a limited passenger list for fear of a submarine attack. If the government was worried about attack why did they allow people like Alfred Vanderbilt‚ one of the richest men in the world at the time‚ and Carl Frohman‚ a famous playwright‚ to board passage? Some people thought was a ploy to have Americans enter the war. By May 7‚ 1915‚ the Lusitania was nearing the Irish coast.
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