Beauty for Ashes Frederick Douglass‚ Harriet Tubman‚ Sojourner Truth‚ William Wells Brown‚ Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield‚ Robert Smalls—these are just a few of the many determined African Americans‚ all of whom were former slaves‚ that changed the world. During the 1800s‚ the average African American faced a world of immense discrimination and injustice‚ yet many rose above their adversity to accomplish their goals. The life of Biddy Mason exemplifies the principle that one’s background need not define
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SMOKING’S IMMEDIATE EFFECTS ON THE BODY Many teenagers and adults think that there are no effects of smoking on their bodies until they reach 1 middle age. Smoking-caused lung cancer‚ other cancers‚ heart disease‚ and stroke typically do not occur until years after a person’s first cigarette. However‚ there are many serious harms from smoking that occur much sooner. In fact‚ smoking has numerous immediate health effects on the brain and on the respiratory‚ cardiovascular‚ gastrointestinal‚ immune
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In the mid-1800s‚ women’s social status was very low. They hardly had any political or legal rights. We cannot imagine how laborious lives they had at that time. As a result‚ more and more women joined into the abolitionist movement. They took part in such great struggle to fight for their promising future. During this time‚ many brilliant leaders sprang out‚ like Sojourner Truth who declared equality of the sexes; Susan B Anthony‚ who was like a master soul and led the women to get their rights
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geography to an advantage can be used to examine the growth of America. These factors allowed Americans to break out from colonial monotony. Without this vast improvement and maturity of America between the years of 1750 and 1876‚ America‚ most likely‚ would not be strong enough or have the potential as a country to become a threat to other countries around the world. Although
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The Louisiana Territory In the 1800s‚ this was the nation’s first opportunity to expand their territory. At this time‚ America was very vast. One of the reasons they wanted this land was that they wanted possession of the port city of New Orleans‚ near the mouth of the Mississippi River. This river was very desirable‚ because the farmers depended on freely moving their crops along the river. It was everything to them. Florida After President Thomas Jefferson has acquired Louisiana through diplomacy
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The industrialization of America began in the 1860s through the 1900s and jobs and manufacturing started to replace human workers with machinery. Industrialization caused a big change in the country that affected a lot of people who had jobs. Getting jobs and making money was harder to do‚ so people were desperate for jobs. Though many jobs were brutal‚ they stayed for the money. Another thing that occurred in the Industrialization of America was that a large amount of immigrants came over seas to
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natural order in their society‚ it remained for many years. During the late 1700’s leading on to the 1800’s‚ different events occurred and dramatically affected their society‚ paving the path towards
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Mental health illness are more prevalent than people think‚ or want to believe. An estimate of 61.5 million Americans experience mental illnesses in a year. Contrary to popular belief‚ anyone can fall victim to a mental health illness. Approximately Four million adolescents suffer from mental illnesses‚ in the United States (www.nami.org). The growing rate of mental health issues has concluded in the improvement and expansion of mental health treatment‚ more research is being done on the different
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reform efforts of the early 1800’s helped them achieve equality.Women fought for their rights in America and women have leaded reform effortsthat began to change the way they were viewed by society. Amelia Earhart andElizabeth Blackwell made a huge impact for women by their independence andbravery. Women’s reform efforts created progress towards their equality andeventually helped they gain some rights and opportunities as all men did.Women’s reform efforts of the early 1800’s helped them achieve equality
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Beginning in 1800s America began a mission of western expansion. Americans knew that they wanted to expand and grow. The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy that regarded domination in the America’s‚ issued in 1823. This policy said that future efforts by the European nations to colonize land and interfere on American soil will be viewed as an act of aggression. This would require U.S intervention. Many Historians felt that the Monroe Doctrine enabled Americans to move west because no other countries
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