1. Introduction However‚ the first lunch boxes weren’t for kids at all. In the late 1800s‚ blue-collar workers carried their lunches to work in metal pails‚ which protected their food from the rigors of the workplace. In fact‚ your lunch pail illustrated your place on the economic scale -- a lunch pail meant you couldn’t afford a hot noontime meal. This didn’t stop children from wanting to emulate their working parents‚ however. Soon enough‚ kids fashioned their own lunch pails from tin boxes that
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How did the conflict between labor and business play out in the late 19th century? In the late 19th century‚ a conflict between labor and business grew as businesses began to cut wages‚ ignore the poor condition of their employee’s working environment‚ extend the hours in a workday‚ and laid off thousands of employees. From this conflict‚ massive strikes‚ organized refusals to work‚ and unions‚ groups formed together to improve working conditions‚ came into action. A notable strike known as the Homestead
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between the 19th and 20th century was the most popular form of housing. Their facade of white and red stone have impressed visitors for centuries. Glasgow was often described as one of the finest 19th century cities in Europe due to the quality of the architecture‚ not only restricted to the public and commercial buildings but also the long rows of tenement housing. The tenements were initially built to provide high density housing during the industrial revolution between the 19th and 20th century for a
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Jacob Riis played a central role in the debate over the causes and consequences of urban problems in the late 19th century. Riis was a photographer who started as a poor immigrant from Denmark. Initially Riis worked low paying jobs until he eventually found his calling in police reports and later photography. As a police reporter‚ Riis had unique access to the city’s slums. In the evenings‚ he would accompany law enforcement and members of the health department on raids of the tenements‚ witnessing
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Nationalism is a culture that people support mainly their nation and people. There were many negative and positive effects of nationalism during the late 19th century. Different nations got tighter and got rid of their difference. There was constant warfare between many nations around the world. Finally‚ equality in the government throughout the world. Nationalism had many positive effects at times because nations were uniting with other nations. For instance “We ardently wish to free Italy from
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The United States‚ from its inception had a lust for real estate. From the original chants of "manifest destiny" to the calls for the annexation of Indian territories‚ America has been driven to acquire land. In this country’s youth‚ land was needed for economic expansion; however‚ by the end of the 19th century‚ the entire continental United States had been in possession and the citizenry of this country turned their eyes out to sea. The United States no longer sought new lands to farm and work
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During the 19th century‚ the United States had began to expand it’s territory towards the western frontier. This era of U.S. history was dominated by the belief in manifest destiny – the idea that the United States was destined to expand to the west coast‚ and was justified in doing so (History.com Staff‚ 2010). However‚ settlers heading west faced many hindrances to their grand plans along their way‚ including the Native Americans‚ who had been living on the land for centuries before western expansion
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In the late 19th century the government reaction was one of Laissez Faire to poverty. Minimal intervention through the workhouse (expanded after the Poor Law Amendment act of 1834) where eligibility criteria was enclosed to try to scale down the worst excesses of poverty and squalor. People arrived at the realisation that poverty was due to social and economic factors outside the person’s control. Poverty had more or less vanished from the political radar in the early 1950s. However‚ came back into
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had been thriving in Europe since its beginnings in the 16th century‚ 19th century America was still a relatively young‚ focusing its growth elsewhere. Musically‚ opera did not appeal to the common American‚ who was much more interested in simpler tastes. Interest in opera was mostly shared among the upper class elite‚ and due to the lack of a middle class‚ wasn’t largely established in the general public until the turn of the 20th century. Socioeconomic limitations reinforced the exclusivity of opera
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Although America up to the nineteenth century is a nation full of bustling people living their own separate and original lives‚ people today look at the past with a narrow and romanticized perspective. It is easy to stereotype and stigmatize people who live in certain eras because they will never be known-- they are defined by the events they live through. However‚ it is possible to rediscover that time does not change what makes everyone human. Americans of the past defend themselves through their
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