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    Industrialization has been a key factor in the development of nations worldwide. Like every movement‚ industrialization is followed by both positive and negative effects. The industrialization of Russia was no exception to this theory. In 1861‚ under the rule of Alexander II‚ Russia moved into an active period of social and political reform that established the base for industrialization. It wasn’t until the 1890’s that Russia finally entered the industrial age. This was due‚ in part‚ to the fact

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    Americans started migrating west in the 1800’s due to many push and pull factors. Everyone had their own treacherous reason to go. All the people included‚ white free men and slaves‚ also the government. No one really knows where it all started‚ but it could be because of religious ideas such as manifest destiny. Or it could have been because americans just wanted to expand because they thought that‚ that was their land. From facts that are shown in the US history textbooks‚ americans wanted to expand

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    Western Expansion’s Contribution to Growing Sectional Tensions between the North and South from 1800 to 1850 G11 Jinpyung Suh ​Once in America‚ there was a time when Eastern South and Eastern North were divided. This division during 1800 to 1850 is one of the important events in American history. There are few reasons for this division such as slavery compromise‚ pursuit of ideal government‚ and also the western expansion. It will make members of the society to be curious why the territorial

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    Standardized testing has been part of American history since the 1800’s. In Hot Topics Carla Mooney says‚ "In the United States school reforms Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe introduced standardized testing in Boston public schools in the mid - 1800s. The men designed the new tests to provide a standard to judge and compare the performance of each school and to gather objective information about the equality of teachers" ( Mooney 11-12).In the mid - 1800s Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe brought

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    According to Rodney stark mention the meaning of industrialization that the process by which technology is substituted for manual labor as the basis of production and Craig Calhoun mention the meaning of urbanization that the process whereby large numbers of people leave the countryside and small towns to settle in cities and surrounding metropolitan areas. The relationship between industrialization and urbanization is people come to find the better life in the city. Craig Calhoun mention

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    The Antebellum period occurred in the United States just before the Civil War. The United States was becoming a successful nation.  The country lead in cotton producing and had developed several industries‚ which in the future‚ surpasses that of European nations. Prior to the Civil War‚ the North and South had many differences that helped shape the antebellum period. The north was very successful because the economy was based on manufacturing. The north could not have farms because the soil was

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    The lives of textile workers in the Lowell Mills‚ not unlike most of the lives of mostly everyone else in America at the time‚ had many challenges. Textile workers were usually single women from age 10 to mid 40’s. The women would be sent to work at the mills to earn a little extra money for their family. Workers had to work very hard for the amount of money they were paid (anywhere from $2 to $6 per week). A textile worker would often begin work before day break and end long after sunset. This eventually

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    Child Labor in Great Britain stated in the late 18th century. The cotton mills owners would go out into the country and find children that were either very poor or orphans and have them come work for them in the factories. In instances children would begin working in these industry at the age of five or six and work long hours of the day basically more than half the day they would end of working in that job. In 1802 social reforms would start to begin to help these children be kids and have some

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    Women in the 1800’s were very segregated from men compared to women today. Many of us don’t stop to think about all the hard work and bravery women put in for us to have the privileges we have in our modern society. The women in America During the late 1800s were treated unequally to men because they couldn’t vote‚ they had no job opportunities‚ and were controlled in marriage. Women were unable to vote; just men. Also‚ women weren’t allowed to choose laws. It’s unfair that men were the only ones

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    1.1 INDUSTRIALIZATION Clarence Zuvekas‚ Jr. (1979) defined industrialization as process of transforming raw materials with the aid of Human resources and capital goods into consumer goods‚ new capital goods which permit more consumer goods (including food) and social overhead capital‚ which together with human resources provide new services to both individuals and business. Joseph E. Imhanlahimhin defines industrialization “as a process of a country’s heavy dependence on large amount of goods manufactured

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