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    placed in classes‚ grades‚ or schools. Usually this is normal and easy to accomplish with the space of classrooms that are put in schools. Unlike today‚ in the 1800s public schools only owned one room. Students of all ages attended that same classroom at the same time. Those who were of different in race and gender went the school. In the 1800s learning was extremely significant. It was so significant that people who were students at the school Munroe Sod had to enter and leave through the window. It

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    During the 1800s there was a growing emphasis on the importance of secondary education. Aside from college‚ the emergence of the American high school offered educational opportunities to more students. Despite the ideas of teaching the masses‚ many high schools excluded women from getting a secondary education (the origins of the American high school‚ 127). Additionally‚ enrollment at universities popularized‚ but women remained excluded from attending Ironically‚ by the late 1800s women had become

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    In the beginnings of America‚ the people of our society always treated others based off of their race. In the early nineteenth century‚ there was still many plantations running and the medical field was just starting to expand and grow with its knowledge. While the doctors were less educated‚ they still were looked upon as high members of their society. During this time period there were many diseases affecting slaves and slave owners. The doctors would come in and try to give treatments to help

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    In the 1800s‚ people from across the globe left their homeland to come to the United States. They fled crop failure‚ rising taxes‚ oppression‚ and hunger to seek out a new settlement in the U.S.‚ as it was thought to be a land of opportunity and economic success. People with different religion‚ language‚ and appearance were enticed to the United States; however‚ because of their physical differences‚ ethnic groups from across the globe faced discrimination and were subject to racialization. Such

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    Around the ending of the fifteenth century‚ Europeans who first settled in America brought longhorn cattle along with them. The population of cattle multiplied. By the early nineteenth century‚ more cattle ranches were common in places such as Mexico. Mexico was included to become Texas. Longhorn cattle were kept on open range and looked after by cowboys also referred to as vaqueros. In 1836‚ Texas became independent because Mexicans left with their cattle behind. Around that time beef was not popular

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    Child Labor In The 1800s

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    in the worst conditions? No? Well guess what? It’s real‚ thanks to CHILD LABOR. A newspaper person talked to a boy selling papers‚ during their talk the child showed him the marks where his dad bit him for not selling enough papers. In colonial america children would work on farms to earn money for the family. Poor families relied upon child labor in order to obtain basic necessary and living essentials. Then people took that to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL.

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    1800s Dbq Analysis

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    The 1800s were a time full of growth and modernization. The geography of countries plays a big roll in their economy and the resources they can provide for themselves. The fact that Great Britain and Japan are both island nations has lead them to develop around their location and limitations. Great Britain is a big island located to the west of the European continent. The geography of England made it easy to protect and to trade. "[British] ports command an unobstructed passage to the Atlantic

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    Penny Press In The 1800s

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    during a very dynamic and colorful period in American history. In the early 1800s‚ newspapers were biased and controlled by political parties that only reported on political news. Social‚ economic‚political and cultural conditions created a new form of journalism which began during the penny press. For once readers were able to read a newspaper and not just view it. This new press refelcted the new politics going on in America. Many historians believed that the nations growing litercay was the reason

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    opportunity has historically driven immigrants to the United States. The term is used by a lot of modern Americans to signify success in life as a result of hard work. A man named James Truslow Adams first used the term in his book The Epic of America‚ written in 1931. He states "The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone‚ with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement." In the United States Declaration of Independence

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    Slave Trade In The 1800s

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    the largest exporter of African slaves to the Americas by the 18th century. By the start of the 19th century more than half of the slaves taken from the West Coast of Africa had been transported across the Atlantic Ocean by British ships. Although Britain was one of the key investors in the slave institution it became the first major European country to leave the trans- Atlantic slave trade and make it illegal in 1807. The discovery of the Americas at the end of the 15th century opened up new economic

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