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    American progressive era‚ from 1890s to 1920s‚ is believed to be a period of societal awakening. Although‚ there is no particular date that could be mentioned to mark its end‚ yet people believe that it lasted for around 30 years. After the civil war‚ the rapidly developing American economy was facing hundreds of problems due to its structural weaknesses. The capitalist system came under severe criticism because of the prominent flaws in its basic structural composition. The issues like racial segregation

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    Analyze the impact of immigration on American life during the 1890s The 1890s have brought immigration have changes the American life. It has boosted the economic perspective as well as the economy‚ caused a surplus in population and has caused government to overreact by creating an amplitude off laws. To begin with‚ the economy during the 1890s flourished. The increase of population such as the Chinese moving to California‚ made the farmers get an easy source of cheap labor. That means less

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    Larsen Ms. Gibson History 8-5 15 December 2017 The Inevitable War Was the American Revolutionary War inevitable? To illustrate this are three reasons explain why it is. For instance‚ the acts and taxes King George III passed is something that was a huge problem. The battles and conflicts are also evidence. The third reason is the fact that the King was too stubborn to make peace with the colonists. Those are the reasons the was inevitable. The Acts King George III passed in 1751-1774 did not show

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    PERIOD 1‚ US HISTORY ACC. Question: To what extent was the Reconstruction a failure? Reconstruction was the period directly after the end of the Civil War (1865-1877). This era was a necessary time for the United States to restore the divided nation. The eleven rebel states that had been defeated leaving the government unsure weather to punish or pardon them. In Reconstruction era‚ the three goals emerged from the federal government: rebuild the South‚ provide and protect freedman’s

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    Chapter 16: The American West a. The Great Plains i. Indians of the Great Plains 1. In the middle of the 19th century‚ probably around 100‚000 Native American lived in the Great Plains. They were very diverse‚ and were consisted of around 6 linguistic families and at least 30 tribal groupings. The Native Americans were then hurt greatly by the small pox and measles introduced by the Europeans. 2. The Teton Sioux were Native Americans‚ who had lived in the Great Plains. The land in the Great Plains

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    American West The “American West” is not what many people think of when they hear those words. People think of it as cowboys and Indians fighting on the Great Plains and in the canyons or the travel across rugged terrain traveling as fast as they could for the gold rush. In all honesty the west started as soon as the Americas began to be colonized and many historians say it begins at the Proclamation Line of 1763. They had many struggles with the Native Americans‚ the French trying to take their

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    of the American West that took place in the second half of the nineteenth century were the expansion of the West and the decline of Native Americans. In the middle of the Civil War‚ Congressional Northerners were looking to populate the West with free labor and they developed the Homestead Act of 1862. This Act would promise settlers 160 acres of land to populate and develop and after five years‚ the land would become theirs. Almost 400‚000 farms were developed and populated between 1862-1890. Although

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    Intolerable Acts triggered outrage in the Thirteen Colonies‚ leading to the First Continental Congress and eventually the Revolutionary War. Many argue that rebellion was justified‚ however. Due to the Quartering Act‚ the Administration of Justice Act‚ and the general violations of the colonial rights by these laws‚ the rebellion was justified. The Quartering Act specified conditions for housing British troops in all of colonial North America. This forced quartering of troops created resentment among

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    The American Indian: 1609 to 1865 The Effects of the Removal on American Indian Tribes: Resistance and Removal “The utmost good faith shall always be observed toward the Indians‚ their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent‚ and in their property‚ rights‚ liberty‚ they shall never be invaded or disturbed‚ unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress.” Northwest Ordinance‚ 13 July 1787 From the time‚ the first colonies were settled in America‚ relations

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    In the 1880’s and 1890’s‚ college football and prize fighting began to ascend into the American limelight. The two sports went from being available to only certain social classes to being made available to all of them. The lower and middle social class would slowly begin to attend college football games and the upper class would start to make their way out to watch prize fighting matchups; two things that appeared as rarities earlier in the decade. With prize fighting originating in areas populated

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