7-3 Notes Gilded Age • Gilded means Gold Covered • 1880-1900 is called the Gilded Age because of societies focus on $ and greed. The rich were getting richer and the poor getting poorer. • Mark Twain wrote a novel entitled The Gilded Age and showed the growing gap between rich and poor. • President Rutherford B. Hayes (1876-1880) noted that 90% of the nations money was controlled by just 10% of the population. Political Machines Graft – political corruption. o Politicians
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died. The most unusual thing of all‚ they were covered in huge black boils. The disease spread throughout Europe and killed nearly one third of Europe’s population over the next three years.This made many people start thinking about what it could be caused by and how to treat it.The Black Death was one the most devastating pandemics in human history it began in south west Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s there
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MU Kevin Jiang Mun Huntington Beach Dunkel 4/19/12 Topic II: Economic Crisis Background: The current economic crisis that exists in Europe and is of concern to the European Union can be traced to similar themes of other crises of the past. A crisis generally follows an economic boom where money and credit expand widely which leads to over-confident investors who spend more than they should. This over spending causes investors to sink in to substantial debt when they are forced to
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Coming of Age Paper Every child has to come to the realization at one time or another that they cannot be a kid forever. They must at some point ‘grow up’ and learn that they will soon have to rely on themselves instead of having their parents continually help them. I guess I learned that the first time I started babysitting a girl who at the time was about seven years old. I have always loved kids. When I was asked by a family friend to take over the job of watching their youngest daughter
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and passwords. If you were a kid under the age of 13 that has Facebook‚ would you want your user and password being sold to strangers? I think kids under the age of 13 should not have Facebook. There are many reasons why kids under the age of 13 should not have Facebook and here is one. There are many Facebook accounts that are fake. Scammers are making fake profiles on Facebook. In 2011 a consumer reported surveys found over 7.5 million kids under the age of 13 using Facebook‚ half of those kids
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Similarities and Differences About Japan and Europe Have you ever wondered whether Japan and Europe were similar? We will be talking about the similarities and differences between Japan and Europe. There were many similarities between Japan and Europe. First off‚ both Europe and Japan‚ had people who fought in their armies. Next‚ the Europeans and Japanese both had warriors that are armed with weapons and armour. In Japan‚ those warriors were called samurai‚ and in Europe‚ they were called knights. Another
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| The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | | The world’s most powerful Communist country was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics‚ or otherwise known as the Soviet Union. It contained 15 republics that were controlled by a central government. Over time‚ it developed into a large industrial power that dictated all aspects of the national economy. It set levels of wages and prices‚ controlled the allocation of resources‚ and decided what would be produced and how and where goods would
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______________________________________________________________________ Age of Exploration DBQ Essay This question is based on the accompanying documents. The question is designed to test your ability to work with historical documents. Some of these documents have been edited for the purposes of this question. As you analyze the documents‚ take into account the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented in the document. Historical Context: The Age of Exploration was a time period that brought
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What were the geopolitical realities of Europe at the end of the 19th century? What alliances were the result? What destabilized the alliance system? Between 1870 and 1914‚ European states were locked in a competition within Europe for territorial dominance and control. In the years 1871 to 1914‚ European diplomacy involved an increasingly precarious balance of power. The politics of geography combined with rising nationalist movements in southern Europe and the Ottoman Empire to create an increasingly
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The Computer Age Believe it or not‚ but the age of computers is upon us. I believe Computers are not only here to stay‚ but in my opinion computers are the wave of the future. Only a device like the computer can change the way we work‚ live‚ and think. I see computers taking us places where no man has gone before. Twenty years ago people were just not up to date with computers back then. I mean if you ask someone about a computer‚ they probably would say something like‚ what in the world are
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