The 19th century was a time of rapid change and modernization of the world through quite possibly the most impactful economic movement in human history‚ the form of the Industrial Revolution. Coming out of the 18th century‚ which saw Enlightenment ideas flourish into actual Constitutions of rapidly rising nations‚ the 19th century saw the infant mortality rate drop rapidly and population growth boom due to findings such as the first vaccine‚ not using leeches to treat disease‚ as well as a variety
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During the early 19th century‚ we did not have the medical knowledge we have today and that resulted in using extreme methods which ended in the patients dying. However as time went by more and more discoveries allowed us to have a closer look into our own health and we experimented on new technology and medicine. It is important to retrace the steps in order to move forward with science. There were much advances during the 1800s that led us into the field that we have now as well as new information
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malaria‚ and diphtheria. The average American city during the 19th century was a breeding ground for the frequent epidemics that occurred‚ killing thousands. Port cities were particularly susceptible to epidemics of infectious disease. New York‚ Boston‚ and Philadelphia were places where ships carrying foreign goods-and disease- were unloaded; they were also where potentially infected immigrants disembarked. Toward the end of the 19th century‚ as people searched for a way to control infectious diseases
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many countries used slaves from the 17th to the 19th century‚ however‚ this nation was built upon from the hard work of slaves. The southern states were solely built upon this ideology and this would only end after the end of the American Civil War. Slavery was a practice that essentially moved the southern economy‚ there were only a small number of individuals who owned plantations‚ and owned slaves‚ while many were common people. By the 18th century‚ there were nearly 40‚000 slaves in the state
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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. Literature allowed women to express themselves and share their stories. For example‚ prior to the 15th century and Margery Kempe’s work‚ Marie de France
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In the late 19th century Americans fully embraced the concept of American exceptionalism‚ believing the “United States had a destiny unique among nations to foster democracy and civilization.” With this ideology‚ Social Darwinism‚ Anglo-Saxon‚ naval expansion‚ and the need for market promoted the rise to imperialism in the United States. When the Americans moved west and defeated the Native Americans they felt matchless because of all the technological and social developments they had over the
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since the 19th century has been truly amazing. They have gone from not having any anesthesia to the anesthesia being a normal thing now for operations from a simple tooth being pulled to major surgeries like open-heart surgery. Other things that has improved majorly is the cleanliness of the operating rooms and the surgical tools. And lastly the doctors are in school a lot longer then they ever was back in the 19th century. Anesthesia has been an ever-changing item in medicine since the 19th century
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In The Age of Innocence‚ I found that the topic of women’s roles in the 19th century held a great deal of importance. In the 19th century women lived lives much differently than women of modern day. Men and women were perceived as having extremely different roles and purposes in life. Women were expected to live their lives in private‚ while men were able to go out freely. While men were given powerful attributes‚ women were given weakened attributes. Women were seen as weak‚ domestic‚ emotional
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in the 19th century and they felt that way because of how society treated them. The Yellow Wallpaper by‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman was about a woman in the 19th century who isn’t given her rights because of the society she lives in and because of her husband. This story lets us see into a mind of a woman who is dealing with a bad case of postpartum depression. She is going through postpartum depression while she stays in a rental house that is supposed to help her. Women in the 19th century weren’t
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During the 19th century Americans utilized imperialism to gain power over foreign countries leading America to expand out ward and gain economic growth. The newcomers to the foreign land took advantage of their resources in order to gain power in comparison to other countries and with power soon arose economic problems. The frontier of the newly founded America was soiled with bodies of those whom intention were just as everyone else‚ to expand westward for hopes of expansion and development of the
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