heroic pose in contrast to the fear and anxieties of the bourgeois colonial types in which his gang and him are robbing. This painting is significant because Bush-ranging appears as a regular focus in many Australian Literature from about the 1880s to the 1890s. In the lead-up of Federation‚ the painting conveys retrospective praises about bush mythology which defines the sense of “Australianness”. Henry Lawson’s eulogising poem “Taking His Chance”‚ is a heartrending account of a young bushranger
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politicians (Joseph E. Brown‚ Alfred H. Colquitt‚ and John B. Gordon) who dominated Georgia politics for over 20 years. These men‚ who all had been key figures during the Civil War‚ rotated positions as governor and U.S. Senator from the 1870s to 1890s. They held a common interest in developing the railroad and mining industries in Georgia‚ serving the interest of those men who were part of the old antebellum planter class‚ and instituting low taxes which resulted in few government services. In addition
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Travelling and transporting goods were very inconvenient before railroads were built in 19th-century. According to Stephen Slavin‚ “Before railroads‚ shipping a ton of goods 400 miles could easily quadruple the price. But by rail‚ the same ton of goods could be shipped in a fraction of the time and one-twentieth of the cost.”1. These made the economies of the American West bad and difficult to improve. John Steele Gordon describes it as: “there really was no "American economy." Instead there was
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main objective was improving economic efficiency‚ especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management. Its development began with Frederick Winslow Taylor in the 1880s and 1890s within the manufacturing industries. Taylor was an American mechanical engineer and a management consultant in his later years. He is often called "The Father of Scientific Management." Taylor was writing at a time when factories were creating
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Evaluate the consequences of modernization for Japan The modernisation of Japan was an all or none matter. Either every aspect of the country had to be modernized to some extent‚ or no single aspect could be modernized. The four main aspects of Japan’s modernisation were industrialisation‚ political modernisation‚ education reform and military development. These four aspects had severe political‚ economic and social consequences on Japan. Some of the main political‚ economic and social consequences
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delight of many people irrespective of their ages. Baum’s fairy tale would‚ however‚ be analyzed by to reveal that the book was actually a metaphor of the populist movement in the 1890s. As Taylor points out‚ the characters in the Wonderful Wizard of OZ closely represents the major participants and events of the agrarian revolt that was witnessed in the Midwest (Taylor 414). Taylor follows the storyline and exposes the metaphors as follows. Dorothy’s twister-tossed abode docked on the impious Witch
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In the political landscape of the late nineteenth century‚ the Populist party was recognized even by its critics as being ahead of its time. Its members saw themselves as bearers of a reform message vital to the nation‚ reflecting agrarian America’s anxiety that the country was moving toward a new form of slavery in the face of changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. These issues were for many Americans the "Crisis of the Nineties‚" and Populists met that crisis with a stand against imperialism
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Thirteenth Amendment * The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude‚ except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8‚ 1864‚ by the House on January 31‚ 1865‚ and adopted on December 6‚ 1865. On December 18‚ Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed it to have been adopted. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted after the American Civil War. Fourteenth Amendment * adopted on July
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APUSH Mock 6 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. Which of the following statements is true about immigration to the United States during the last two decades of the 19th century? a. Southern and Eastern Europeans came in larger numbers than earlier in the century. b. Irish immigrants came in larger numbers than earlier in the century. c. The US government entered into a “gentleman’s agreement” to ban immigrants from certain
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In 1890 Weyerhaeuser and his parents purchased more than 200‚000 acres of timberland in the central part of the state. He eventually expanded his business in Minnesota to sawmills and small railroad lines. This gave him power over every step of the lumbering process so he could tightly control costs and profits. By 1900 more than 400 lumber companies including several belonged to Weyerhaeuser were operating in the state and Minnesota ranked third in the nation in lumber production. Towns and cities
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