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    19th Century Women's Roles

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    rights would still be nonexistent. Women all around the world delivered messages through literature to nonviolently protest and work for the women rights movements. Some popular authors include Jane Lead‚ Anne Bradstreet‚ Queen Elizabeth I‚ Mary Wollstonecraft‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning‚ and Emily Dickinson who expressed themselves in ways comparable and exceeding men during the 15th centuries to the 20th century. Women’s roles varied throughout the different centuries building up to our current day

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    unified and formed identities of the collective within these states. Nationalism played a large role in shaping international relations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ with two differing interpretations of the same ideology rising to the forefront. The first emphasized a nation’s right to independence and autonomy. This form of nationalism took on a large role during the late 19th century as colonialism

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    Answer 1: The 19th and first half of the 20th century conceived of the world as chaos. Chaos was the oft-quoted blind play of atoms which‚ in mechanistic and positivistic philosophy‚ appeared to represent ultimate reality‚ with life as an accidental product of physical processes‚ and mind as an epiphenomenon.… It was chaos when‚ in the current theory of evolution‚ the living world appeared a product of chance‚ the outcome of random mutations and survival in the mill of natural selection. In the

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    people that are left out of it‚ don’t have rights in America. In this case‚ women. Women were vital parts of America. They could do jobs and work in the workforce just like men‚ but they were never given the chance to. The Constitution gives people included in “We the People” rights‚ a voice‚ property‚ protection from the government and the right to go to court. Unfortunately‚ women weren’t apart of it. Throughout U.S. history women were marginalized but used activism to gain protection under the Constitution

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    blows as you look to all the tired women heading back to the women’s dorm‚ you decide to join them as you need all the rest you can get. Women are always thought of as weaker both in mentality and physicality. The industrial age‚ in America around the early 19th century‚ was a new found way for the rich to make money. The rich founded the factory system and exploited women and children to make tremendous profits. Discrimination of the sexes caused women

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    The Populist Party was a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century. It flourished particularly among western farmers‚ based largely on its opposition to the gold standard. Although the party did not remain a lasting feature of the political landscape‚ many of its positions have become adopted over the course of the following decades. The very term "populist" has since become a generic term in U.S. politics for politics which appeals to the common person in opposition

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    is the act of a dominant country wielding its power to control a weaker and less developed area. Colonies‚ conquests‚ and economic exploitations are a few examples of imperialism. A numerous amount of countries were imperialistic during the 19th and 20th century‚ such as Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ and Italy. Many of these countries occupied territory in Africa to collect valuable exports such as ivory‚ rubber‚ diamonds‚ and gold. The imperialist oppression of many countries led to numerous resistances

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    made for man." A quote from Elizabeth Stanton. Women during the 19th century were judged by four outstanding qualities according to the Cult of True Womanhood; “piety‚ purity‚ submissiveness‚ and domesticity.” Men deemed piety to be the foundation for a good wife. Religion would not take a woman away from her “proper sphere” known as her home which kept her in isolation. Another way men would control women was by her purity. A woman in the 19th century was to remain pure and innocent. Remaining so

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    European countries imperialized‚ or “extended control and influence over the political or economic life of other nations”(“imperialism.”) for their own selfish desires‚ which often resulted in harming the cultures of the native peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries . They imposed western ideas on the natives and destroyed the native culture. Britain evaded many counties like India and China. Although they said they were trying to help the inferior‚ they really were extending their power to other places

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    Women Changing Role’s in the 1920’s During the 1920’s women had began to change their roles in society to show that they can be more than what they appeared. Before the 1920’s women were second class citizens that came second in society‚ they did not have the same privileges as men did. Many women also did not have jobs which contributed to society because women were busy at home taking care of children and the house. Also the expectations of men were to be the supporters of the family which made

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