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    Right of Education Over the years America has changed significantly. Some important changes include the civil rights movement‚ the equal voting rights for women‚ and the right of education to all movement. These changes are meaningful to all society because all that has been worked for would be gone‚ and people would not have the capability to enjoy all of these rights‚ including the education that they could receive. In the twentieth century‚ insuring free and equal education for primary and secondary

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    Child Labor In The 1800s

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    Child labor is the “full-time employment of children under a minimum legal age.” Child labor is an awful act that still happens around the world. However‚ in the United States child labor is mostly eradicated. It did not happen overnight but in fact took many years. There were many different laws and acts and committees that were created before there was no child labor. One of the earliest Child Labor Laws in the United States‚ was in Massachusetts. The act was passed in 1836 that regarded “the

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    Francisco Miranda Whittington Ela IV Date: 3 - 1 - 2024 Racism and Inequality The promise of emancipation was not fulfilled by reconstruction‚ it’s seen through the modern day issue of the racial stereotypes put on black individuals by police and regular citizens as well. We can combat these issues by showing fairness to all parties in situations where an answer isn’t clear to who’s fault and what happened. Some people could say the emancipation was fulfilled if you look at the freedom and rights

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    The election of 1800 was aptly named the Revolution of 1800. The Revolution of 1800 was a peaceful transition of power from one set of political ideas to another. Obviously‚ giving the election of 1800 this title means it has to have significant factors in the election. Many factors happen within foreign policy‚ judiciary‚ and politics during the election of 1800. These three areas are main reasons why the election of 1800 was renamed the Revolution of 1800. Thomas Jefferson had a big part in foreign

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    1800s North and South

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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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    American Life In The 1800s

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    “Humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would‚ over the next two centuries‚ forever change the world” (Jeremy Rifkin). Even though industry would help humanity advance into new frontiers‚ people during the 1500s placed most of their energy into farming and agriculture because it was the main source of profits at the time. Depending on where a farmer lived‚ they would grow different products or they owned livestock. For the most part‚ the North raised livestock

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    Transportation was one of the major developments during Industrialism by connecting cities through railroads. Existing railroads were improved upon as well as expanding westward. Railroads were essential for transporting both goods and people. They brought raw materials to city factories‚ which would then be converted to consumer goods and redistributed by the trains. The expansion of tracks encouraged settlers to migrate‚ and build more cities out west. By the 1900’s over two thousand miles of railroad

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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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    Around the ending of the fifteenth century‚ Europeans who first settled in America brought longhorn cattle along with them. The population of cattle multiplied. By the early nineteenth century‚ more cattle ranches were common in places such as Mexico. Mexico was included to become Texas. Longhorn cattle were kept on open range and looked after by cowboys also referred to as vaqueros. In 1836‚ Texas became independent because Mexicans left with their cattle behind. Around that time beef was not popular

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    Child Labour In The 1800s

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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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