the nation was modernizing too fast because they were unable to deal with problems of urbanization. The changes in urban America in the late nineteenth century therefore are viewed to be mostly negative. The rapid increase of urbanization was partly due to the number of immigrants that flooded America. People from rural America also migrated to the cities during this period. They gave up farms to move to cities‚ hoping to make a better life. Most of all‚ the cities owed most of their population growth
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Physical activity In the early part of the nineteenth century‚ it was believed that physical activity was dangerous and inappropriate for girls. Girls were taught to reserve their delicate health for the express purpose of birthing healthy children. Furthermore‚ the physiological difference between the sexes helped to reinforce the societal inequality. An anonymous female writer was able to contend that women were not intended to fill male roles‚ because "women are‚ as a rule‚ physically smaller
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The Jeffersonian Democracy was a movement in the first decade of the nineteenth century led by Thomas Jefferson‚ and they felt that the people made the best choices in choosing a leader with the greatest abilities (Dictionary.com‚ n.d.). Thomas Jefferson‚ a democratic- republican‚ took a different political stance than his Federalist counterparts. He felt that it was ideal to deal with the citizens directly‚ which quickly made him popular. The Jefferson democratic-republicans created newspapers
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The Science of Psychology I found this article both interesting and informative. It’s amazing to me that the earlier presidents of the American Psychological Association had such vision and were so accurate with their predictions of how the APA would grow over the years to follow. They knew how big of a role Psychology would play in society because it stemmed from many different sources and covered many issues. Society as a whole tends to play the blame game when things go wrong as opposed to
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In the late nineteenth-century and into the early twentieth-century‚ the United States was a budding power looking to breakthrough and become one of the leading forces in the economic spheres of the world. The Imperialist Era fostered that transition; Uncle Sam sought out more territories in places that the US had not interfered with before. This encroachment saw new policies‚ laws‚ and ideals being created to better handle foreign policy. The change of America’s influence in the world derived from
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The effects of Nineteenth Century transcendentalism continues to live with us today. Transcendentalism was a reaction to the grim conformity of the era’s rapidly modernizing society. To be transcendentalists was to believe that one could only achieve personal fulfillment and greatness through individuality and refusal to join the herd. Henry David Thoreau was in the vanguard of the transcendentalist movement and advocated a radically contrarian approach to work. At the dawn of the Industrial Age
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In the nineteenth century European and American women lived in an age personalize by gender inequality. At the beginning of the century‚ women were not involved in social‚ political‚ or governmental rights they could not sue or be sued‚ could not vote‚ could not give evidence as a witness in the court‚ had extremely limited control over personal property after marriage‚ were not granted legal custody of their children in cases of divorce‚ and were interdicts from institutions of higher education
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Square dancing is said to have started in Europe with its first dances documenting in the sixteenth century. This style of dance was common and popular throughout the continent of Europe. The idea of square dancing was brought in the United States during the time when Europeans started to move and colonize to the thirteen colonies. The colonists that came from Europe brought along and carried their traditional folk dances with them. These traditional dances eventually spread through the United States
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In the nineteenth century women were not allowed to vote‚ and it was assumed that they did not need to vote because their husbands would take responsibility for them in essential political matters‚ and it was presumed their vote would be unnecessary as they would only vote for the same political party anyway. Even the Reform Act of 1832‚ which was supposed to increase the electorate to include a larger percentage of the citizens of the United Kingdom‚ failed to include women‚ something which antagonised
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Armenians. Armenia also became the first nation to name Christianity as its state religion‚ and experienced an era of peace and prosperity. But the Armenian lifestyle changed when the Turkish attacked Armenia in the eleventh century and began the Turkish rule. By the sixteenth century‚ Armenia had become one of the many nations absorbed into the growing Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans established a large empire that spanned from Eastern Europe to Western Asia and North Africa‚ but to govern this vast nation
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