believe that the Bible represented scientific or historical truth. Many Liberal Protestants became active in the “social gospel” and other reform movements of the era. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) An organization founded in 1890 to demand the vote for women. NAWSA argued that women should be allowed to vote because their responsibilities in the home and family made them indispensable in the public decision-making process. During World War I‚ NAWSA supported the war effort
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The 1880s were a very difficult period for the farmers in the Great Plains and the West. The United States was going through many changes economically and socially. The farmers suffered most through these changes. Farmers faced droughts‚ insect plagues‚ and living in sod houses because of the climate in the Great Plains. Many of the farmers also had debts to pay but didn’t have any money to pay them with because of the lack of silver in circulation and over-production of cash crops. Because of the
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Why was Africa colonised in the years 1870-1914? The Colonization of Africa was due to a wide range of factors‚ not only economic and political but also for social‚ religious‚ humanitarian and technological reasons‚ which differed from country to country. Africa’s diplomatic‚ strategic and material potential led European Powers to seize the opportunity to exploit a new continent. During a period between 1870 and 1914‚ where the continent of Africa was completely annexed by the leading European powers:
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In conclusion unions were the united voice of workers and repressing them forever wouldn’t have been possible for any industrialized nation‚ especially one that tried to grow industrially as all 19th through the early 20th century European states were. Due to the agrarian and industrial revolution that occurred in the late 1700s and the early 1800s‚ the population of Europe increased dramatically resulting in countryside people moving to the cities in order to find a better occupation1. This caused a major urbanization2
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he economic‚ social‚ and agricultural phenomena that spiraled out of control in 1929 decimated the artistically characterized luxurious lifestyles of many Americans and destroyed any existing prosperity for the general population eradicating billions in assets overnight and exacerbating the looming problems of lower class instability from years of depression of farm prices after the first world war. In an attempt to reprimand the effects of both the short-term economic and decade-long economic rifts
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The West: Exploiting an Empire When the civil war was over‚ Americans believed expansion was their “manifest destiny” and began moving in the west direction across the continent‚ conquering the Native Americans through diverse means and created a North American Empire. The Native Americans were pushed from their lands and forced to change their culture by the end of the century because they were seen as threat that might hinder the White Americans migration. The Indians abandoned their
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political subdivisions that have a significant degree of political autonomy. It was the unification of Australian colonies which formed the commonwealth of Australia on 1st January 1901. ForBy the 1890 ’s nearly 75% of the population had been born in Australia. This created growing Australian nationalism. By the 1880 ’s the telegraph linked all capital cities and the telephone linked Melbourne and Sydney. Railway lines‚ although different gauges‚ made transport quicker. This resulted in better communication
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HISTORY 212-2 Primary Source Analysis #2 Significant Lines for Discussion Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age‚ 1870-1890 Thorstein Veblen‚ Excerpts from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) * “By a further refinement‚ wealth acquired passively by transmission from ancestors or other antecedents presently becomes even more honorific than wealth acquired by the possessor’s own effort.” Luther Standing Bear‚ excerpt from My People the Sioux (1928) * “These people cared nothing for
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2007 AP® UNITED STATES HISTORY FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS UNITED STATES HISTORY SECTION II Part A (Suggested writing time—45 minutes) Percent of Section II score—45 Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-J and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. High scores will be earned only by essays that both cite key pieces of evidence from the documents and draw on outside knowledge of the period. 1
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representation of people and historical events Machine aesthetic Impressionism 1870 - 1890 France Alfred Sisley A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s‚ Characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene The use of unmixed primary colours and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. Pointillism 1880 – 1890 France Georges Seurat Paintings made of small‚ distinct dots of pure paint. Dots
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