Industrial Nation During the 19th century the United States faced its greatest economic revolution. Mainly‚ this industrial enhancement primarily a result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad‚ a transportation system that runs cross-country. Aside from impacting the economy‚ the railroad also affected the politics of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Since the political jobs were reserved for the upper class‚ investors in the railroad tended to have inflated bank accounts; thus‚ the
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Agrarian Discontent and the 19th Century America‚ like any other nation‚ has always relied heavily on agriculture. Differing from other nations‚ however‚ is the problems that agriculture has created through America’s short history. It can be argued that the Civil War was started by agriculture; the South developed as an agricultural dependent region‚ while the North developed as a industrial region; creating two distinct‚ almost separate cultures. Some twenty years after the Civil War‚ new problems
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C 20 Notes What two issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s? The money supply and civil-service reform What happened to James Garfield’s presidency? It never really got started because he was assassinated soon after coming to office. Describe voter participation during the late nineteenth century. It was generally very high––usually from 80 percent up to 95 percent. Why did the federal government tend to ignore the social consequences of industrialization
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In the era of Reconstruction to the end of the 19th century‚ the United States underwent an economic change marked by the rapid expansion of big business. The rapid corporate growth in America started in the end of 1860s‚ after the end of Civil War. The first period of Big Business rise matched with important changes in the American society. These were the end of Civil War‚ abolishment of slavery and several other political reforms‚ resolution of social tension between the North and the South‚ and
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States experienced a period of unorganized labor revolts in response to industrialization in the 19th century. In 1877‚ the Great Railroad Strike led workers to shutdown railroads.1 Wealthy business leaders reacted quickly to military repression. This led to new strike uprisings in Pittsburgh‚ St. Louis‚ and Chicago‚ disillusioned workers with their need for institutionalization‚ and convinced the government to implement a firmer political presence.2 Labor unrest grew due to harsh working conditions
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Women in the 19th Century Individual rights is a vital part of society. In modern times there are unalienable rights given to a United States citizen that cannot be interfered with regardless of class‚ gender or race. However a century ago that was not the case since gender and race determined what rights a person was entitled to. The form of government set up in the past allowed white men to have an advantage and hold privilege over others. In this government women had no rights to exercise and
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Social Darwinism At the end of the 19th century‚ Social Darwinism was promoted and included the various ideologies based on a concept that competition among all individuals‚ groups‚ nations‚ or ideas was the framework of social evolution in human societies. In this view‚ society ’s advancement was dependent on the "survival of the fittest"‚ the term was in fact coined by Herbert Spencer and referred to in "The Gospel of Wealth" theory written by Andrew Carnegie. Childhood and Education Charles
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status of European Women from the sixteenth to early twenty first century. Women in the sixteenth‚ seventeenth‚ and eighteenth centuries were challenged with expressing themselves in a government controlled by men a system that generally refused to grant permissions to women’s views. Cultural and political events during these centuries increased attention to women’s issues such as education reform‚ and by the end of the eighteenth century‚ women were not able to speak out against injustices. Though modern
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conservative political and military leader Anastasio Bustamante. Revolt followed revolt until 1833‚ when Antonio López de Santa Anna was elected president. In 1834 a political crisis resulted in the overthrow of the constitution of 1824. A new centralist constitution‚ which stripped the Mexican states of their autonomy‚ was enacted in 1836. Protests against centralization encouraged the Texans to rebel against Mexican authority in 1835‚ in what came to be known as the Texas Revolution. Santa Anna was
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By the end of the nineteenth century‚ the relationship between the Armenians and the rest of the Ottoman Empire could be described in two words: mistrust and fear. While Armenians gradually found their footing in Ottoman society‚ the Turks felt increasingly threatened by this. Instances of new ideas of nationalism‚ revolution‚ rumors‚ and scapegoating were indicative of this relationship. Specifically‚ four episodes that respectively demonstrate this are the founding of the Hnchak and Dashnak political
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