1. Why did the nineteenth-century southern economy remain primarily agricultural? (pp. 330-36) Slaves made it possible for the people in the southern warm climate areas to make a profitable living off the land. Plantation owners were able to maintain the slave labor‚ which kept their costs down. Planters kept investing in cotton and slaves. The cotton grown by the planters in the south was the largest exporting crop at the time. The planters were getting rich off of their cotton crops. Having slave
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The plight of a homeless woman and a child in London during the mid 1870’s. The abject of misery was the results due to unfortunate circumstances and by accident. Many women abandoned by their husbands‚ some widowed‚ some with or without children. The predicament of poverty‚ misery stricken women in the 1887‚ usually older women‚ reduced to the plight of natural consequence. Begging was usually constituted food‚ bread‚ tea‚ this was their principle items to survive. Money was not easy to come
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The United States remained a nation of immigrants during the nineteenth century. Throughout the nineteenth century‚ land and jobs in America were plentiful. The United States still had remained a strong magnet for immigrants‚ offering them chances o take up farming or urban employment. Glowing reports from early arrivals who made good reinforced romantic views of American opportunity and freedom. A German immigrant in Missouri applauded America’s "absence of overbearing soldiers‚ haughty clergymen
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B. Anthony who realized that they too were oppressed. Maybe not in the same way as blacks‚ but lacking rights all the same. Women have been fighting for their rights for well over one hundred and fifty years‚ and whether it was in the nineteenth century or the twentieth the fight has always been for equality. Beginning with the Seneca Falls Convention in July of 1848‚ a key moment in the women’s movement‚ women have been hard at work trying to rally the troops in support of women’s rights. Elizabeth
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affection never was wasted‚” he expressed a romantic ideal ever-present in nineteenth century poetry: the ideal that naive romantic love should be valued above all else. This ideal has persisted to the present‚ ‚ presenting itself in innumerable pop songs and romantic comedies; working itself so deeply into the psychology of Western culture that those unaffected may consider it a cult. In the nineteenth century‚ this romanticising of young love was often imbued with a languid‚ yearning quality; and
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throughout Europe from 1346 to 1353. It is estimated to have killed about 1/3 of the European population. During this time period‚ the chances of surviving were very slim. The bubonic plague was the largest and most destructive plague of the 14th century. The plague first arrived in Europe by sea in October of 1347 by Italian merchants who docked their ships at the Sicilian port of Messina. Most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead and those who were alive were gravely ill. They were unable to
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The old-traditional way of life has vanished for ever. Today only villages and some small towns remind us of this kind of life‚ and as time passes‚ more people choose to abandon traditional way of life‚ to move to the "big city". Modern way of life has nothing in common with the traditional one. Human habits‚ values‚ norms have changed. The most important of these social changes can be observed in human relationships‚ family economy‚ education‚ government‚ health‚ and religion. To be able to examine
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In the early colonial period up until the 1800’s‚ many Christians believed that mental illness was a result of sinfulness or demonic possession. This led to people believing that the mentally ill just needed to become closer to God and that idea led to a stigma that still affects today. Many religious people will tell the mentally ill to pray or go to church more often or read the bible‚ and while these things might be effective for the spiritual strain on the mentally ill‚ this often discourages
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The efforts of those lobbying for the extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts in the late 1860s and 1870s are notable in drawing attention to venereal diseases beyond the realm of the military. Military efficiency was not the only thing to seriously affected by venereal disease‚ but also the health of the nation as a whole. The Association formed to promote the Acts’ extension held that ‘sufferers under any kind of contagious disease are dangerous members of society‚ and should‚ so long as they
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In 1648 the European continent was a developing nation that improved upon its morality‚ virtue‚ and its code of conduct in the upcoming years. In between 1648 and 1815 there were many changes and new laws being implemented that reflected individual liberty amongst men and women. In the readings it states‚ “It follows that the first rule of your political conduct ought to be to relate all your efforts to maintaining equality and developing virtue.” This was a step to fight against monarchs‚ the republic
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