The Great Encounter of China and the West 1500-1800 The Chinese and European cultures came together for the first time in the fifteenth century when great Chinese fleets traveled throughout the Indian Ocean and along the coast of Africa. These voyages created much concern for China. They lead to a period of isolation for security reasons. By the time the first Europeans arrived in China there was little to no evidence of these voyages. (Mungello 2005) Fallowing that time the Chinese government
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Power is the main reasons for the formation of systematic oppression‚ racism‚ and prejudice towards African Americans in America. It has always been about economic‚ social‚ and political power. The English first kidnapped Africans and brought them to Britain to work as slaves in order to gain economic power. Jim Crow laws used to enforce segregation was used in order for white europeans to keep social power over African Americans in the United States. Similar laws were enacted and black people were
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19th Century Slavery Problems During the Civil War‚ slaves were kept for work on farms to pick cotton and to blacksmith. Across the South‚ people argue that the Civil War was not about slavery‚ but about the state rights and “independence”. I disagree with the statement that the Civil War was about freeing slaves. Yes‚ slavery was a point of dispute‚ but the war was fought over state’s rights and the limits of federal power. The issue was not the fact that slavery was a thing‚ but who decided
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leaders in the nineteenth century believed that it was America’s destiny to expand the nation’s civilization and spread the idea of democracy across the continent. The United States was growing in numbers and economically as a nation. As the colonies are growing‚ land expansion was much needed. More land meant more income opportunities. So America wanted to expand their nation more western towards the pacific coast. The white‚ Protestant American in the mid-nineteenth century defined this progress
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Agrarian Discontent and the 19th Century America‚ like any other nation‚ has always relied heavily on agriculture. Differing from other nations‚ however‚ is the problems that agriculture has created through America’s short history. It can be argued that the Civil War was started by agriculture; the South developed as an agricultural dependent region‚ while the North developed as a industrial region; creating two distinct‚ almost separate cultures. Some twenty years after the Civil War‚ new problems
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Prison Reform in the 19th Century So‚ every time I re-read a source or try to write‚ I keep thinking back to what I am actually trying to argue. I’ve finally figured out my argument: Hawthorne portrayed Hollingsworth as a failure because he did not believe in the prison reform efforts of the time. I came to this through looking at a lot of parallels in my sources‚ and finding different reasons for why my hypothesis is true. The two types of prison reform in the early 1800s were meant to reform
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During the nineteenth century‚ Europe had a difficult time creating a stable economic system. Through trial and error they created The Common Market‚ which lead to the creation of The European Atomic Community and The European Coal and Steel Community. These three economic systems make up The European Community. The European Community has given Europe one of the most thriving economies to this day.1 “The United States of Europe” was the first of many attempts at a stable economic system before the
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The 19th century was a time of great scientific discoveries. Discoveries like germ theory‚ which helped us further understand how certain diseases are caused and how they can be prevented‚ and the invention of the telephone‚ which became the foundation for every day communication all over the world. The realizations made during this period of history have become an integral part of modern society and its comforts. With all that being said‚ most of the Western world is still rooted in bigotry and
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In much of the country in the late nineteenth century‚ social tensions were defined in terms of rich versus poor‚ native-born versus immigrant‚ and worker versus capitalist. In the states of the former Confederacy‚ despite all the calls for a New South in the years after Reconstruction‚ tensions continued to center upon the relations between blacks and whites. Throughout the late 19th century‚ 4‚743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Most of these people that were lynched were black
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Introduction In the 19th Century‚ the Utopian communities were taken to be the representatives of human civilization due to the activities they conducted. They are said to have charismatic leaders who upheld religious or secular moral ideals. The communities were engaged into different modes of government‚ labor‚ marriage and wealth. Utopias in America shared a particular goal that strived for the crucial step from the wilderness to a new social order. The Communities with European origins focused
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