Early 19th Century Compare and Contrast Back in the late 18th century – early 19th century‚ crime punishments were extraordinarily brutal. For example‚ if a thief stole from another person‚ they would be branded with the letter “T” on their hand. In this time era‚ these people believed in public humiliation in order to get the point across. By branding the criminals‚ it would assure the people‚ of the city‚ if anyone would ever steal this is the punishment they would face. If the crime continued
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The Bethlem stopped admitting parish patients in 1857 and‚ from the late nineteenth century‚ prided itself on being one of the pioneers of uncertified cases. By 1900‚ only 3% of patients were certified when compared with 97% of the asylum population.3 Admission policy at the Bethlem during this period specified that no patient could be admitted
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Prison Reform Learn to recognize the influence of socially sanctioned hatred. What I mean by socially sanctioned hatred is simple: We human beings seem to have a built-in temptation to objectify other groups of people in order to feel superior to them or to find a scapegoat for all our problems. It’s reflected in language‚ in words like "nigger‚" "Faggot‚" "slant-eyes‚" "gook‚" and so on. Certainly‚ among most of us‚ that kind of prejudicial speech is not acceptable. And yet‚ among decent people
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Throughout the nineteenth century‚ the Americas experienced a great deal of state building and social change. From the beginning of this era‚ America retained a strong constitution and a dynamic sense of national identity. There were massive economic expansions‚ as well as‚ plenty of focus on factories and cities. Specifically‚ during the first half of the nineteenth century‚ the Americas also advanced in cotton production and in the textile industry. In addition‚ westward expansion came about due
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After the civil war and then throughout the rest of the nineteenth century‚ became much larger‚ more industrialized‚ and became much more common. The new American city changed people’s lives and people continued to change the city. The most prominent factors that transformed places like New York‚ Boston‚ and Chicago were immigration‚ industrialization‚ and the expansion of the railway system. The Industrialization of cities in the mid to late 1800’s all started with the railroad system. Railroads
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6. What were the major social problems facing the United States in the late nineteenth century? Explain to what extent the federal government attempted to address those problems. During the late nineteenth century‚ the United States was experiencing a lot of changes that soon would turn into problems. Immigration was being a big problem at the time as well as urbanization. The lack of jobs produced crime‚ poverty and housing were other big problems that the United states was facing at the time
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This paper will deal with the attitudes of the early nineteenth century toward women and their roles. The paper will examine these attitudes by utilizing primary sources such as newspapers and advice and housekeeping books and by comparing them to books written today on the topic of nineteenth century women. Many examples taken from period newspapers represent the opinion of historian Barbara Welter that attitudes of women were based on their possession of certain well?defined virtues. This paper
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Labor in the Nineteenth Century 2. A. The Lowell Mills Strike of 1834 took place in Lowell‚ Massachusetts in 1834. The dominant work force in the Lowell Mills were young‚ rural‚ unmarried women. Working in the Lowell Mills was dangerous because the machinery could easily injure a young girl if she made a simple mistake. Also the women worked long hours with little pay. Despite these treacherous conditions there was sense of unity among the women who all came from similar backgrounds. In 1834
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In her essay Woman in the Nineteenth Century‚ Margaret Fuller discusses the state of marriage in America during the 1800s. She is a victim of her own knowledge‚ and is literally considered ugly because of her wisdom. She feels that if certain stereotypes can be broken down‚ women can have the respect of men intellectually‚ physically‚ and emotionally. She explains why some of the inequalities exist in marriages around her. Fuller feels that once women are accepted as equals‚ men and women will be
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Farmers of the Late Nineteenth Century The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American Politics. The country was finally free of the threat of war‚ and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However‚ as these two decades went by‚ the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat‚ once the sustenance of the agriculture industry‚ were selling at prices so low that it was nearly impossible for farmers to make a profit off them.
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