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    Grade 12 West & the World – Unit Test #3 Review Industrial Revolution Economic‚ Social‚ Political & Intellectual Changes – Economic: New innovations result in increase in production of goods‚ and trade. New ways of organizing human labor = increase in productivity. Changed the way banks and stock exchanges operated Brought a new understanding of economics Social: Transformed the way people made a living. Made new middle class – “working class” Changes in family lifestyle and

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    many countries used slaves from the 17th to the 19th century‚ however‚ this nation was built upon from the hard work of slaves. The southern states were solely built upon this ideology and this would only end after the end of the American Civil War. Slavery was a practice that essentially moved the southern economy‚ there were only a small number of individuals who owned plantations‚ and owned slaves‚ while many were common people. By the 18th century‚ there were nearly 40‚000 slaves in the state

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    Examining the quality of cloth (d) Providing food to the weavers /OR 1C. (a) (c) (b) (d) 1 1 1 Who amongst the following said “19th century London was a city of clerks and shop keepers” ? (a) Henry Mayhew (b) Charles Booth (c) Gareth Stedman Jones (d) Ebenzer Howard 2A. (a) (b) 1 (c) (d) Identify the country where the earliest kind of print technology i.e. the system of hand printing was developed‚ (a) India (b) Korea (c) England (d) France /OR Page 3 of 9 2B. (a) (c) (b) (d) 1

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    since the 19th century has been truly amazing. They have gone from not having any anesthesia to the anesthesia being a normal thing now for operations from a simple tooth being pulled to major surgeries like open-heart surgery. Other things that has improved majorly is the cleanliness of the operating rooms and the surgical tools. And lastly the doctors are in school a lot longer then they ever was back in the 19th century. Anesthesia has been an ever-changing item in medicine since the 19th century

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    In The Age of Innocence‚ I found that the topic of women’s roles in the 19th century held a great deal of importance. In the 19th century women lived lives much differently than women of modern day. Men and women were perceived as having extremely different roles and purposes in life. Women were expected to live their lives in private‚ while men were able to go out freely. While men were given powerful attributes‚ women were given weakened attributes. Women were seen as weak‚ domestic‚ emotional

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    in the 19th century and they felt that way because of how society treated them. The Yellow Wallpaper by‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman was about a woman in the 19th century who isn’t given her rights because of the society she lives in and because of her husband. This story lets us see into a mind of a woman who is dealing with a bad case of postpartum depression. She is going through postpartum depression while she stays in a rental house that is supposed to help her. Women in the 19th century weren’t

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    During the 19th century Americans utilized imperialism to gain power over foreign countries leading America to expand out ward and gain economic growth. The newcomers to the foreign land took advantage of their resources in order to gain power in comparison to other countries and with power soon arose economic problems. The frontier of the newly founded America was soiled with bodies of those whom intention were just as everyone else‚ to expand westward for hopes of expansion and development of the

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    Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational‚ national‚ or local groupings of high enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity‚ most commonly for their own profit. Seemingly‚ the highest rate of criminal violence was partaken in the 1920’s. With the prohibition laws in America and the world in an economic depression. People turned more and more too criminal activity‚ organized criminals such as the American mobsters and other crime organizations grew

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    People have different views about marriage. Some people believe that it is old fashioned and that is existence is irrelevant. Nonetheless for the woman in the 19th century it was difficult to have choices. In the 19th century men were in charge in relationships‚ but in today’s society women have more rights and attitudes from the 19th century that do not apply. There are various ways someone can describe or explain the meaning of marriage. “Marriage is given of human society”(The Future of Marriage

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    Factors that Contributed to expansion? There were reasons for our westward expansion in the 19th century. One reason was our belief in Manifest Destin. Manifest Destiny: Definition The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents Identify the territory of US expansion? ? Gold Rush 1848-49 Facts 1.The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush 2.A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted

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