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    Women in past western society have been seen as the unintelligent‚ powerless‚ and insignificant gender. Though something began to change between 1790 and 1860. Economically Women were now able to work‚ have money‚ and help their families; Domestically‚ there was the great admiration for women in the home now instead of just expecting their place to be there. The Industrial Revolution brought many changes to the whole nineteenth-century. It brought technology to make life much easier‚ economic growth

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    American Indian Movement

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    American Indian Movement: Activism and Repression Native Americans have felt distress from societal and governmental interactions for hundreds of years. American Indian protests against these pressures date back to the colonial period. Broken treaties‚ removal policies‚ acculturation‚ and assimilation have scarred the indigenous societies of the United States. These policies and the continued oppression of the native communities produced an atmosphere of heightened tension. Governmental pressure

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    Missouri Compromise of 1820

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    The Missouri Compromise of 1820 In November of 1818‚ Missouri petitioned Congress for statehood and ignited a controversy over slavery and a balance of power in the Senate that would span two sessions of Congress and threaten the dissolution of the Union and a civil war. Prior to the Missouri question‚ the Union had eleven Free states and eleven slave states‚ each with two Senators. The Missouri Territory‚ carved out of land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803‚ covered an expanse of land

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    the America. President Kennedy’s actions and words had an impact on the concept of American exceptionalism. During the 1960’s‚ racial segregation and the movement to stop it‚ along with the Cuban missile crisis consumed the nation. In an era in which American values were tested against racial injustice and tyrannical governments‚ President John F. Kennedy stood firm in his commitment to upholding liberty

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    supremacists’ desires and claimed that white genes were inherently superior to other races‚ and with this base formed the first eugenics society. The American Eugenics Movement attempted to unethically obliterate the rising tide of lower classes by immorally mandating organized sterilization and race based experimentation. The first step in its movement to uphold the social status of white supremacists was to create a scientific base on which to build the belief that eugenics was ultimately a good

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    Between the years of 1790 and 1860 and eventually leading up to the Civil War in 1861‚ sectionalism was a growing issue in the United States. In the early nineteenth century‚ westward expansion was starting and taking place‚ which ultimately started sectionalism. The Federal Government was very encouraging towards settlers moving and expanding west‚ angering the northern states. They believed that if they expanded west‚ all their best laborers would be taken away from them. The North was fighting

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    1860-1877 Revolution

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    According to The American Heritage Dictionary‚ a revolution is "A sudden or momentous change in a situation". This could not any better summarize the change in America between 1860 and 1877. The United States went from bitter fortress of agriculture to a progressive nest ready to nurture the coming of industry. Radical changes in the treatment of non-whites‚ as well as a move to the city marked the beginning of a new era. The immense cultural and constitutional changes caused by the 13th‚ 14th

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    American Eugenics Movement

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    The eugenics movement began in the 20th century by a man named Francis Galton. As the cousin of Charles Darwin‚ Galton believed that eugenics was a moral philosophy to improve humanity by encouraging the ablest and healthiest people to have more children (Carlson). This Galtonian ideal of eugenics is often thought of as positive eugenics. Eugenics can be defined as the outgrowth of human heredity aimed at "improving" the quality of the human stock (Allen and Bird). At the other end of the spectrum

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    Reform Judaism Out of the multiple variants of modern Judaism‚ the Reformist movement is considered to be the most liberal and progressive. The Reformist movement is seen as a continually developing movement that is most receptive to ideas outside of its own Jewish Community. The Beginning of this movement can be seen to go back to the rise of the Enlightenment era. It could be argued that‚ combined with the enlightenment‚ the growing political and social freedoms for the Jews encouraged or at least

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    States in the period 1820-1860? Over time‚ transportation has shown to have an incredible impact on the United States. It has revealed to bring about economic and social changes in various ways. In the late eighteenth century ancient methods of traveling were still in use in America and it was often very slow. Americans were aware that if transportation advancement occurred‚ it would potentially increase foreign trade‚ increase land values as well as strengthen the American economy. In the mid

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