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    Towards the end of the 18th Century American foreign policy underwent major change. Fueled by the Progressive movement and new interpretations of Manifest destiny‚ Americans sought to expand the United States’s influence around the world. During the 1890s the United States mainly used military and economic prowess to accomplish their international desires. Progressives used this new foreign policy to expand their domestic agenda onto to an international level. These advancements were widely supported

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    Portuguese slave ship in Angola‚ in Southwest Africa. The ship was seized by British pirates on the high seas‚ not brought to Virginia after a period of time in the Caribbean.” As this was the beginning of slavery‚ it was a practiced thought the American colonies in the 17th and 18th Centuries‚ and slaves helped build the economic foundations of this country. The slaves represented one ethnic group‚ not many‚ as historians first believed. As we

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    the forces of change In the typical eighteenth-century French mind‚ woman was differentiated from man not merely in terms of gender‚ but by a presumed discrepancy in relative intellectual strength and by a rigidly enforced division of destinies‚ duties‚ characteristics‚ personalities‚ and even requisite virtues. In 18th century France‚ women of the upper classes were often highly educated and noted for their intellect. The salons of 18th century Paris‚ run by women of intellect‚ were famous as

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    19th Century Tenements

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    multi-family dwelling in the urban core‚ usually old and occupied by the poor.” As New York became more and more crowded with immigrant’s tenements started popping up through the city. There was approximately more than 80‚000 tenements build by 19th century. It is said that they housed approximately 2.3 million immigrants. Tenements featured small cramped apartments with poor ventilation and lack of indoor plumbing. “A typical tenement building had five to seven stories and occupied nearly all

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    Women in the 19th Century

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    A desire for Equality The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hosted uproar among the women of America who sought equal representation and rights from the U.S. government. Among the female activists‚ authors‚ such as Willa Cather and Louisa May Alcott‚ began to commence about women’s suffrage through their writing. A multitude of other women‚ such as Anne Sullivan‚ began to feel empowered to become independent and strong females‚ just as able and equal as men. Women faced an immense amount

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    Hysteria in the nineteenth century can be explained as a “social role that reflected gendered socialization in an American cultural context” (Marshall 711). Early cases of hysteria during this time were linked to an excess of emotions that interfered with the nervous system (Crimlisk

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    In my opinion agriculture played the largest role in the success of American business from the colonial period through the first half of the 19th century. From the very beginning farming held a crucial place in the American economy. This country started with 13 small independent farming economies which joined together in 1776 to form the United States. Without being able to be self-sustained these colonies would have never developed. Between 1860 and 1910‚ the number or farms in the United States

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    eighteenth century spent their days performing many strenuous tasks in and around their homes. Pregnant women were at really high risk for bearing children‚ colonial women would give birth to about five and eight offsprings. Many of the pregnancies would often end in miscarriages and about one in eight could expect to lose their lives in childbirth. In addition‚ colonial women were always consumed by household chores and always had work to tend to‚ an example of this is an 18th century woman‚ Mary

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    Trades Back in the 18th century trades were a very common way of life. Trades were mostly shops run by a wide verity of people that could make all sorts things like clothing‚ and wigs too bricks‚ and houses. There are many more trades I could list but that would extend my 900 words for this essay. In this essay I’m going to give some information about four different trades that really grasped my attention. These four different trades that are wide spread from fashion trades to trades that would be

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    and political power disproportionality rests with males. Given the traditional gender roles set in America’s early nineteenth century patriarchy‚ both men and women’s attitudes towards sexuality and enforcement of gender norms were used to oppress women while valuing men‚ and slavery magnified the patriarchy’s worst aspects like sexual violence. The early nineteenth century for America symbolized nationalism and industrialization‚ but with all that came gender roles emphasized by the patriarchy. Women

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