“Imperialism” spoke about the United States involvement with other countries toward the end of the 19th century. The United States wanted to be an imperialist countries‚ like Great Britain‚ France‚ Japan‚ and Germany‚ in order gain economic and trading benefits. It started with the idea of liberating Cuba from Spain. After the United States won‚ they made Cuba accept a protectorate‚ allowing the United States to do whatever they want basically. Afterward‚ the United States had its first Asian war
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At the end of the Nineteenth Century‚ the American population was growing rapidly. Industrialization was growing and this meant all of the major cities were populating also. After some of the government grants given to the railroad companies‚ 200‚000 miles worth of tracks laid across the country‚ to help settle the west by the year 1900. “From 1877 to 1890‚ both the amount of goods and the number of passengers traveling the rails tripled” (U.S. History chapter18). Agriculture was the first big
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Entering the 19th century‚ Finland was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden. Then‚ in 1809 it became a Grand Duchy under Russian rule‚ and finally‚ after periods of both greater and lesser degrees of independence‚ it becoming an independent country in 1917. Finland initially joined Sweden in the 13th century and then remained under Swedish control for about 600 years. Then‚ in the Finnish War of 1809‚ Russia captured Finland‚ which lead to Finland becoming a Grand Duchy in the Russian empire. During
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In the early 19th century‚ Virginia had long been the central point of focus in terms of the American slave trade. Slaves were brought in to the city from the surrounding areas where they were housed in jail cells and sold at auctions. The primary sources of today’s reading experienced by James Martin‚ Elizabeth Keckley‚ and Elizabeth Veney offers insight into the process of the selling of slaves in order to allow us to better understand the history of the past. It was during this time period that
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of Americans who had slowly gained the right to vote in the early nineteenth-century remained unclear. It is considered an essential right of a citizen
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The conflicts that occured in the late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century caused America to shift from a primarily isolationist country to an imperial power. After years of staying out of international affairs‚ America’s domestic and foreign policy was on track to change completely. Throughout the Progressive Era‚ we dealt with political corruption and other internal problems that arose from the rapid industrialization. In Man with the Muck Rake which was written by Theodore
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progressively. By the end of the century‚ a positive connotation engulfs the negative one‚ and the world is well on its way to being westernized‚ modernized‚ and industrialized. Nationalism is an idea based around unification. The people of the world no longer wanted to be labeled as a servant or peasant. Instead‚ they yearned to be proud of where they came from. They wanted to have a unique language‚ currency‚ and religion: an identity. After the conclusion of the American and French revolutions‚ a
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According to the research by the Lois Drawmer in her essay “Sex‚ Death‚ and Ecstasy: The Art of Transgression”‚ most of the framework that remains today was depicted in the nineteenth century‚ when most of fundamental masterpieces of this genre were produced. The dirt‚ the negativeness and the dehumanization surrounding the living time of the people in that period was strongly reflected and influenced the literature in a way. So did the ideology of the female representation‚ consisting in an ominous
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ethnic rivalries and religious strife along with disputes over territory‚ resources and morals. However‚ with the considerable advancements in technology presented over the last century‚ the effects and devastation are more vast and noteworthy. Prior instances being the innovation of the Maxim Machine gun in the nineteenth century that took the lives of millions of people in World War I‚ the bringer of the war of
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The insanity defense and legality of those who were deemed insane was an important question in the nineteenth century. The question of insanity was contested because it had become a medical question in an age of rampant science. The English court formulated the most important legal definition of insanity‚ the right-or-wrong test. The high court in England ruled a defendant could be deemed insane if and only if‚ while committing the crime‚ he was “laboring under such a defect of reason‚ from disease
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