In the late nineteenth century shortly after the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ farmers in the Midwestern United States found themselves in quite a predicament. During the second industrial revolution of the United States that contained mass introduction of: railroads‚ oil‚ steel‚ and electricity‚ the risk-taking entrepreneurs of this era took an adventure into the world of cutthroat capitalism. In just a little time‚ a handful of monopolies arose in all these industries which hurt both the consumer
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Many white Christians have believed in being racially and religiously dominate since the early 1000s. Globalization has spread through European colonization‚ leading to the expansion of white supremacy‚ along with racial and religious discrimination towards Muslims‚ Jews‚ Asians‚ and Africans in Western societies. White people have used multiple forms of segregation including the Nuremburg law in Germany during the 1930s-1940s‚ the Jim Crow laws in the southern United States during the late 1800s
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Because many American women of the nineteenth century had very different ideals‚ feminism became a global movement‚ and "early feminists found allies abroad." Many feminists believed that married or not‚ all women deserved the same rights as men. An extreme feminist of her time‚ Margaret Fuller‚ wanted to spread her ideas about women’s rights‚ and she became editor of the New York Tribune in 1844. She later published Woman in the Nineteenth Century in which she. Every path to self-fulfillment‚ she
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and military policies of a decaying Spain and the emerging regional power of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century‚ however‚ placed Puerto Rico‚ along with Cuba‚ at center stage in the Caribbean. Out of all the colonies under Spanish rule‚ the island of Puerto Rico was the only one to never obtain its own independence. The final quarter of the nineteenth century carried dramatic radical‚ social‚ and financial alterations to the island‚ setting the tone for the advancement of its domestic
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Oppression of Women in 19th Century Literature In the stories “The Jewelry” by Guy de Maupassant‚ “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin‚ and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ the female characters are unequal and less important than the men in society. The duties of women during this time period did not consist of much more than seeing to her husband’s needs and caring for the home and children. The authors show the lack of independence women were allowed in the 1800s‚ especially
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Throughout the 19th century‚ America faced a new era as industrialization marked a shift toward powered‚ specialized machinery‚ factories and mass production allowing many businesses to begin to bloom. New philosophies unfolded as Americans faced many challenges and aimed to develop solutions to fix such problems. Yet‚ despite the attempts of the working class to create a better life for themselves in this new era‚ many business moguls would soon take over and begin to monopolize their respective
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Were you engaged with women’s rights in the nineteenth century? Or do you ever wonder what it was like to be a woman back in the days? The term women’s rights are rights and freedom that are set for women and girls of all kind. In which is now formed into women’s rights and the feminist movement which was around the 20th century. In some countries‚ these rights are supported by law‚ but in others‚ women’s rights are being ignored and they‚ are being oppressed on the regular basis. In the following
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I: Reviewing the Chapter Checklist of Learning Objectives After mastering this chapter‚ you should be able to 1. explain why the United States suddenly abandoned its isolationism and turned outward at the end of the nineteenth century. 2. indicate how the Venezuelan and Hawaiian affairs expressed the new American assertiveness as well as American ambivalence about foreign involvements. 3. describe how America became involved with Cuba and explain why a reluctant President
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In the nineteenth century a series of innovations in transportation and economic expansion transformed our economy from an agricultural standpoint to one now mainly focused on new methods of production and having an endless commercial ambition. Previously most american families would produce what they needed at home for subsistence and sold anything left over to local stores but‚ now our country has slowly shifted to an industrial economy where a bountiful of economic opportunities for the “common
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1. Why did the nineteenth-century southern economy remain primarily agricultural? (pp. 330-36) Slaves made it possible for the people in the southern warm climate areas to make a profitable living off the land. Plantation owners were able to maintain the slave labor‚ which kept their costs down. Planters kept investing in cotton and slaves. The cotton grown by the planters in the south was the largest exporting crop at the time. The planters were getting rich off of their cotton crops. Having slave
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