In the late nineteenth century shortly after the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ farmers in the Midwestern United States found themselves in quite a predicament. During the second industrial revolution of the United States that contained mass introduction of: railroads‚ oil‚ steel‚ and electricity‚ the risk-taking entrepreneurs of this era took an adventure into the world of cutthroat capitalism. In just a little time‚ a handful of monopolies arose in all these industries which hurt both the consumer
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leaders in the nineteenth century believed that it was America’s destiny to expand the nation’s civilization and spread the idea of democracy across the continent. The United States was growing in numbers and economically as a nation. As the colonies are growing‚ land expansion was much needed. More land meant more income opportunities. So America wanted to expand their nation more western towards the pacific coast. The white‚ Protestant American in the mid-nineteenth century defined this progress
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In much of the country in the late nineteenth century‚ social tensions were defined in terms of rich versus poor‚ native-born versus immigrant‚ and worker versus capitalist. In the states of the former Confederacy‚ despite all the calls for a New South in the years after Reconstruction‚ tensions continued to center upon the relations between blacks and whites. Throughout the late 19th century‚ 4‚743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Most of these people that were lynched were black
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frames for people‚ not to include them‚ but to exclude them. The simplest and most common of these borders include race‚ gender‚ and ability. For the issue of race‚ borders were created by excluding non-white people. Particularly in the nineteenth century‚ during this time slavery was abolished‚ but that does not mean different races were treated well. While slavery was illegal‚ black codes and Jim Crowe laws prevented African Americans from being accepted in to society. Many former slaves
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America’s sporting culture of the late 19th century and into the early 20th century largely reflected ideals the country enforced during colonial times‚ as the same ruling parties (upper class white males and the newly forming “middle class” white male) were charged with shaping and influencing society. These ideas‚ that enforced white male (unless poor except in certain cases) dominance‚ limited women’s involvement and ranked “others” (blacks‚ immigrants‚ poorer whites) below the upper white class
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many reform acts and the third reform act that added 6 million to the electorate they were still far from universal male suffrage. This would have hindered the socialist movement as it meant that there were many numbers of working class and poverty stricken men who could not vote. This is important‚ as these were the people that the socialist movement would want to appeal to and gain support from. This can be viewed because as male suffrage was improved in the later and early 20th century labour
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Because many American women of the nineteenth century had very different ideals‚ feminism became a global movement‚ and "early feminists found allies abroad." Many feminists believed that married or not‚ all women deserved the same rights as men. An extreme feminist of her time‚ Margaret Fuller‚ wanted to spread her ideas about women’s rights‚ and she became editor of the New York Tribune in 1844. She later published Woman in the Nineteenth Century in which she. Every path to self-fulfillment‚ she
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and military policies of a decaying Spain and the emerging regional power of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century‚ however‚ placed Puerto Rico‚ along with Cuba‚ at center stage in the Caribbean. Out of all the colonies under Spanish rule‚ the island of Puerto Rico was the only one to never obtain its own independence. The final quarter of the nineteenth century carried dramatic radical‚ social‚ and financial alterations to the island‚ setting the tone for the advancement of its domestic
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The Populist Party was a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century. It flourished particularly among western farmers‚ based largely on its opposition to the gold standard. Although the party did not remain a lasting feature of the political landscape‚ many of its positions have become adopted over the course of the following decades. The very term "populist" has since become a generic term in U.S. politics for politics which appeals to the common person in opposition
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licenţă Nineteenth Century women. An analysis of female characters in English and Roumanian literature. Student‚ Lavinia CHIRIAC Coordonator ştiinţific‚ Prof. conf. univ. dr. Ramona MIHĂILĂ BUCUREŞTI‚ 2013 CUPRINS INTRODUCERE Chapter 1. Historical Background of Nineteenth Century Europe ........
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