1. the "weekend"- New work patterns that established the weekend as a distinct time of recreation and fun. 2. Coney Island and Blackpool- both are amusement parks. Coney Island was only 8 miles away from central New York City and Blackpool in England was a short train ride from nearby industrial towns. 3. "day-trippers"- People who sit on the beach just to get fresh air. 4. Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan – Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Joseph Swan opened homes and cities
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Document 1: Liver and kidney pills advertisement‚ Sparks Company‚ ca. 1880s 1. What advantages would advertisers gain from using Frances Cleveland’s picture? They would receive more sales because the commonwealth would trust Frances. 2. What advantages might a political candidate get from this phenomenon? It’ They will receive more attention. 3. What does advertising like this tell us about the process of political choice in the 1880s? Political choices try to get appeal towards the commonwealth. Document
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Japan achieved sustained growth in per capita income between the 1880s and 1970 through industrialization. Moving along an income growth trajectory through expansion of manufacturing is hardly unique. Indeed Western Europe‚ Canada‚ Australia and the United States all attained high levels of income per capita by shifting from agrarian-based production to manufacturing and technologically sophisticated service sector activity. Still‚ there are four distinctive features of Japan ’s development through
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AP Notes: Unit 6-The Gilded Age Part 16: The Last West and the New South (1865-1900) This chapter details the goings on in the South and the West following the Civil War‚ including the Jackson Frontier Thesis. A. The West: Settlement of the Last Frontier. Following the War‚ many Americans now turned to settling the West‚ as the land between the Mississippi and the pacific had been referred to as the “Great American Desert.” Why? Gold in California‚ fishing and farming in Oregon‚ etc. Although
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Farmers everywhere in the United States during the late nineteenth century had valid reasons to complaint against the economy because the farmers were constantly being taken advantage of by the railroad companies and banks. All farmers faced similar problems and for one thing‚ farmers were starting to become a minority within the American society. In the late nineteenth century‚ industrialization was in the spotlight creating big businesses and capitals. The success of industrialization put agriculture
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Hard Times * The Untied States was the leading exporter of wheat by the 1880s * There was a big drought in the 1880s and the large amount of wheat caused wheat prices to drop * Some farmers tried to borrow money from the bank‚ but if they failed to pay there mortgage payments they lost there land to the bank * Farmers often continued to work as tenant farmers‚ renting the land from its new owners * By 1900‚ tenants cultivated about one-third of the farms on the Plains 4. Closing
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National University Working Papers in Economic History No. 44. Butlin‚ N.G. (1958)‚ ‘The Shape of the Australian Economy‚ 1861–1900’‚ The Economic Record‚ 34(67)‚ pp. 10–29. Butlin‚ N.G. (1962)‚ Australian Domestic Product‚ Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861–1938/39‚ Cambridge University Press‚ London. Butlin‚ N.G. (1984)‚ ‘Select Comparative Economic Statistics 1900–1940: Australia and Britain‚ Canada‚ Japan‚ New Zealand and U.S.A’‚ Australian National University Source Papers in Economic History
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The Liberal Reforms 1906-1914 Why did the Liberals introduce Social reform 1906-1914? Ever since the Liberal’s implemented social reform 1906-1914‚ historians have been divided as to why such reform occurred. However‚ there are some key reasons why the Liberal’s implemented reform: Reason 1: Social investigations of Booth and Rowntree At the end of the nineteenth century middle class social explorers such as Charles Booth and the Quaker social reformer Seebohm Rowntree highlighted unprecedented
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In the book Toffler describes three types of societies‚ based on the concept of “waves” – each wave pushes the older societies and cultures aside. First Wave is the society after Agrarian Revolution and replaced the first huntergatherer cultures. The transition from the earlier hunter-gatherer societies to the agrarian and agricultural societies is also known as the Neolithic Revolution; this coincides with the transition from the Mesolithic era to the Neolithic
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Latin America experienced a wave of revolutions. After being subjected to the reign of tyrants for decades‚ the people of Guatemala and Cuba yearned for full rights and in pursuit of this sought to establish self-governed democracies.The pursuit of agrarian land reform was at the forefront of their concerns. The people desired to usurp the supremacy of foreign companies aligned with the authoritarian regimes that had for decades diverted profits away from the workers and citizens. The worst offender
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