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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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    During the 19th century‚ The United States was not a place of unlimited individual economic opportunity‚ nor a place where social equality and political democracy reigned supreme‚ as many people believed it to be. Women were not allowed to vote until mid-1919. Although slaver was abolished in 1865‚ black people were still not treated as equals. The political systems was littered with fraud and injustice. Even with the creation of labor unions in 1866‚ the country still fell into depression.

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    during the last quarter of the 19th century to the westward expansion. The essay examines the effects of rise of technology and industry in America to the American population. The American history of the 19th century shows that the rise of technology and industry covers the American reconstruction. During this period‚ there was rapid economic growth and great prosperity in the northern and western saws of the United States. America became one of the world dominant economic‚ industrial and agricultural

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    riches and thought of it as something to be glad for. The idea of freedom proclaimed by the "liberals" of the nineteenth century who held suppositions now called moderate depended on the idea that lone on the premise of

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    Several factors contributed to the unsuccessful reform efforts in the nineteenth century. A few major roadblocks were violent methods that monopolies used to combat the unions such as The National Guard‚ and Pinkerton Guards. Despite seeming like a positive aspect ‚ rags to riches stories by Horatio Alger significantly reduced change due to the fact that the poor still believed they too could be rich. The last major issue that blocked reform was the fact that unions were viewed as radicals and anarchists

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    Racism has been a huge problem over the centuries. Despite slavery being abolished in the nineteenth century‚ the general consensus of inferiority has been within the human race for all this time. However‚ not everyone had obtained this particular mindset. Towards the middle and later eighteenth century‚ there were in fact liberal thinkers that felt that the mindset that almost everyone contained in that time was a crime against humanity itself. In fact‚ there were even paintings made to represent

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    In a cultural group in the 19th and 20th the western cultures started becoming more modern with technology‚ communication and military(). This modernization had given the western culture more political power and economic success in other cultures(). As the western cultures gained more accomplishments‚ other cultures were more pessimistic about the change and progression(). Non-western cultures were already set in their own ways with their own values. They were not ready to change or modify their

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    Labor Unions In the years of Post-Civil War the United States was on a path of capitalism‚ big-business‚ and becoming a Global Force that all countries would begin to recognize as powerful. Though this time period shown progression for industry and for the U.S. economy it also marked a rise of the working class‚ and of social stratification because the big business owners became richer and more powerful while the poor workers scavenged for jobs to feed their families. Disgusted by the poverty wages

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    Before the 19th century‚ Europeans had very little interest in Africa and what it had to offer. There was not much information on the land such as living conditions and types of resources available. Towards the end of the 19th century‚ European nations started claiming territory in Africa due to the fast paced manufacturing and the need for more materials to keep up with production. At the end of the 19th century‚ European countries were competing with each other over different territories in Africa

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    subjugating the indigenous population for their land. The ascension of colonialism ideology was based on the belief that colonies were an essential attribute of any great nation or nation with aspirations to be great. The colonies were mostly used for economic‚ political‚ and diplomatic reasons. The most notable colonial powers were Rome‚ Greece‚ Britain‚ France‚ Spain‚ Portugal‚ the Netherlands and Denmark. The Berlin conference in 1884-1885 is a meeting in which the major European powers negotiated their

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