silver strikes in Utah‚ Nevada‚ Idaho‚ Montana‚ Arizona‚ and South Dakota kept people coming West. 100‚000 miners came to Colorado in 1859 when gold was discovered near Pike’s Peak. The Comstock Lode (over $340 million in gold and silver in Nevada by 1890) brought Nevada into the Union in 1864. i. The method: Individual prospectors would look for traces of gold and silver in the streams by placer mining (panning.) Deep-shaft mining took its place‚ which required wealthy investors and corporations
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connections to place‚ in terms of both the surrounding environment and our perceived place within relationships. The pastoral comedy “As You Like It” by William Shakespeare strengthens our grasp of this elusive concept by exploring the influence of agrarian existence on how characters finds their place in society. “Line written in Kensington Garden” by Matthew Arnold similarly expresses a rapturous appreciation of nature while conveying the isolation of the protagonist in a tumultuous society. Ultimately
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Steven Shamlian‚ Anubhav Kaul Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States‚ from 1889-1893. He was 56 when he was elected president. Benjamin Harrison was born to a Presbyterian family on Aug. 20‚ 1833‚ on his grandfather’s farm in North Bend‚ Ohio. He was named for his great-grandfather‚ a signer of the Declaration of Independence. His grandfather was William Henry Harrison‚ the 9th president. Ben was the second of the 10 children of John Scott Harrison and Elizabeth Irwin
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Russian History 1881 – 1914 What was Russia like in 1881? • 82% of the population were illiterate peasant farmers. • No technology was used on farms – subsistence farming. • Largest standing army in Europe. • No political parties and the press was heavily censored. • Fierce loyalty to the Tsar – often enforced by brutal secret police. • Royalty owned most of the land – Tsar’s estate was larger than some countries. • 1861 – Tsar Alexander II freed
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Chapter 19: Immigration‚ Urbanization‚ and everyday Life‚ 1860-1900 The New American City * most changes in cities with urban growth fueled by * migration from the countryside and immigration‚ created environment for economic development * b/w 1870 and 1900‚ population increased‚ 40% of population live in cities‚ * diversity of city threatened traditional expectations‚ rapid growth led to terrible living conditions and accentuated class differences * native born city dwellers
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Summary of Rizal in Belgian Brussels (1890) January 28‚ 1890 – Rizal left Paris for Brussels Brussels– capital of Belgium. Two reasons why Rizal leave Paris: The cost of living in Paris was very high because of the Universal Exposition. The gay social life of the city hampered his literary works‚ especially the writing of his second novel El Filibusterismo. Life in Brussels Jose Albert – accompanied Rizal to move to Brussels. Jose Alejandro – an engineering student who replaced
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Chapter 30: The Americas in the Age of Independence Outline I. The Building of American States A. The United States: Westward Expansion and Civil War * Almost all adult white men eligible to participate in political affairs of republic and vote by 1820s 1. Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny * After American Revolution‚ British ceded to new republic all lands between Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River * U.S. doubled in size * Napoleon Bonaparte allowed U.S
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pedagogy to the United States from Germany in the early 1880s. John Dewey’s educational theory of the 1890s was another example. Also in the 1890s‚ Hugo Münsterberg began writing about the application of psychology to industry‚ law‚ and other fields. Lightner Witmer established the first psychological clinic in the 1890s. James McKeen Cattell adapted Francis Galton’s anthropometric methods to generate the first program of mental testing in the 1890s. In Vienna‚ meanwhile‚ Sigmund Freud developed an independent
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POST IMPRESSIONISM - THE ROOTS OF MODERN ART VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) ’View of Arles-Orchard in Bloom with Poplars ’‚ 1890 (oil on canvas) Post Impressionism was not a formal movement or style. The Post Impressionists were a few independent artists at the end of the 19th century who rebelled against the limitations of Impressionism. They developed a range of personal styles that focused on the emotional‚ structural‚ symbolic and spiritual elements that they felt were missing from Impressionism
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Russia. They range from political opposition groups such as the Bolsheviks and the social revolutionaries‚ to the failure to reform. The Russo-Jap war of 1905 acted as the trigger to the revolution. However many factors such as increasing political discontent within the cities and countryside were also important and these issues can be linked back to the key developments in the late nineteenth century. Huge military defeats were caused by the Russo-Japanese War‚ which highlighted the weakness of the
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