Major changes came to the textile industry during the 20th century‚ with continuing technological innovations in machinery‚ synthetic fibre‚ logistics‚ and globalization of the business. The business model that had dominated the industry for centuries was to change radically. Cotton and wool producers were not the only source for fibres‚ as chemical companies created new synthetic fibres that had superior qualities for many uses‚ such as rayon‚ invented in 1910‚ and DuPont’s nylon‚ invented in 1935
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Starting around the 19th century‚ imperialism is the act of one country taking control of another. Throughout the 1800s‚ a myriad of European countries dominated other‚ smaller countries. The leaders of the imperialist countries justified this act by saying it was their duty to spread their religion‚ language‚ and government to the “savage” and “uncivilized” natives (their “white man’s burden”). Imperialist nations were also constantly competing with each other for superiority and ascendancy. They
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The nineteenth century has led to the creation of innovations that have had a significant impact on the current wellbeing of civilization such as antibiotics‚ the printing press‚ and the telegraph. Although these all pertain to the advancements of technology‚ steam engines have not only been considered an advancement to technology‚ but have changed the view of transportation entirely. Transportation rapidly became the focal point in all areas embodying civilization‚ including but not limited to‚
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This paper will deal with the attitudes of the early nineteenth century toward women and their roles. The paper will examine these attitudes by utilizing primary sources such as newspapers and advice and housekeeping books and by comparing them to books written today on the topic of nineteenth century women. Many examples taken from period newspapers represent the opinion of historian Barbara Welter that attitudes of women were based on their possession of certain well?defined virtues. This paper
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In the Postbellum and Industrial nineteenth century‚ many religions adapted their beliefs and practices to the environment around them. Catholicism‚ as it was worshiped by Greek and Italian immigrants‚ looked vastly different from the ways in which the Americanized Roman Catholics worshiped. Judaism experienced this acclimatization as well‚ with Orthodox Jews and Reformed Jews sharing more differences than they did similarities. As time progressed gender norms began to evolve in American society
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During the 19th century‚ the northern states were industrially and commercial advanced compared to the southern states. They had dense cities‚ developed technology‚ and steam powered factories. Most northern cities housed free blacks that could have owned a thriving and successful business‚ but racism was common and interracial marriage was illegal. The Southern states were more agricultural and rural than the northern states. Southern landholders had black slaves work the land. Even though the north
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the early nineteenth-century remained unclear. It is considered an essential right of a citizen
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The relationship between workers and the owners during the 20th century was not a good relationship‚ The workers did not like the way they were being treated and that the companies were making more while not paying the workers more. The workers would not support/ work well for the owners or corporations because they would work many hours a week and still not make very much money. They would go on strike while the companies are in the profit margin‚ which would in a sense drop the economical value
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Children in the nineteenth century were usually faced with poverty and lived in the urban slums. Progressive reformers‚ who were generally people from small towns who later lived in cities‚ focused primarily on these children and their problems. The goals of the reformers were to change the meaning of childhood and help people understand how children should really be treated. A child growing up in the nineteenth century was expected to live an adult life by an early age. “In the colonial period
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Modernisim covers many poltitcal and cultural movements that are rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. American modernism benefited from the immense diversity of immigrant cultures. Modernist America had to find solidarity in a world no longer unified in belief. The unity found lay in the understanding of the shared consciousness within all human experience. The relevance of the individual is emphasized; the truly limited nature of the
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