Introduction: Despite the growth of industry‚ urban centers and immigration‚ America in the late 19th century was still predominantly rural. Seven out of ten people in the United States lived in small towns with populations under 2500 or on farms in 1870. In Indiana‚ the 1880 census reported a population of almost 2 million residents‚ about 55 per square mile‚ 1‚010‚000 men and 968‚000 woman. About three out of four people lived in rural areas. Although much of the study done on woman’s roles during
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Even though treatments in the 19th century weren’t as harsh as those in the 18th century‚ many patients were perceived as a threat to the public safety until physicians began changing their tactics toward treatment. In the beginning of the 19th century‚ “...asylum doctors applied various treatments to patients’ bodies‚ most often hydrotherapy‚ electrical stimulation and rest”(Holtzman) to correct the nervous system that they perceived as flawed. Doctors were still cruel toward patients‚ and put them
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The rapid expansion of physical mediumship phenomena transpired during the 19th Century‚ heightened people’s appetite for spiritualism. During the 19th century physical mediums developed due to the many years of dedication to the divine spirit‚ contributing to the enhanced understanding of spirit communication. Their beliefs at that time what were they; why did they develop in this fashion? The manifestation of spirit‚ being physical mediumship‚ what we perceive we can believe‚ giving the highest
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the mid-18th century and reached its height in the 19th century. The Romantic literature of the nineteenth century holds in its topics the ideals of the time period‚ concentrating on emotion‚ nature‚ and the expression of "nothing." The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and‚ while using emotion and nature; the poets and their works shed light on people’s universal natures. Romanticism as a movement declined in the late 19th century and early 20th century with the growing
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Sectional Compromises in the 19th Century There are two mind paths to choose when considering the statement that the compromises of the 1800s were not really compromises‚ but sectional sellouts by the North‚ that continually gave in to the South’s wishes. The first is that the compromises really were compromises‚ and the second is that the compromises were modes of the North selling out. Really‚ there is only one correct mind path of these two‚ and that is that the North sold out during
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started way before European colonists came into Africa. Missionaries in the 19th century had a main objective of bringing Christianity to the people of Africa. They tried to change the way Africans behaved because European Missionaries saw Africans as being savages and uncivilized and they saw it as their duty to change that. I will be discussing how missionaries were the forerunners of western imperialism in the 19th century. When the world was entering the 20th there was great need for more control
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Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries Introduction During the 19th and 20th century‚ Europe witnessed its so-called demographic transition‚ with a fall in birth rates and an even greater fall in mortality rates‚ which led to a rapid increase in the population. The demographic transition was essentially a result of a decrease in chronic infectious diseases like tuberculosis‚ syphilis‚ diphtheria‚ measles‚ dysentery‚ and typhoid fever. The wage dispersion evidence suggests that the middle of
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changed drastically between the 19th century and the 20th century. In the 1800’s‚ those who were diagnosed with mental illnesses were placed into institutions that were similar to jails. Once they were placed into these institutions‚ they would never be allowed to leave‚ even if they learn to control their illness. Most of these institutions had terrible rules‚ and were treated with cruelty. If a person was diagnosed with any type of mental illness in the 18th century‚ their family would put them in
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Where would Western civilization be without the “long” 19th century affects on the unconstrained and continuous progress it made in peoples lives? The industrial revolution was key for major inventions that would help boom the economy. For example‚ the steam power’s advantage was its efficiency in mass production and the only resources needed were water and heat. This is one of the many new inventions to help increase production at a faster rate and be more cheap. Labor laws were very poor when the
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Medical History of the 19th Century Back in the early 19th century‚ medical treatments either didn’t work‚ or they hurt a person more than help them. Slaveowners would try to remedy the diseases and injuries their slaves would receive‚ but this did not work very well. Slaveowners would also still force their slaves to work no matter how ill they were. Research about slaves and diseases shows that illnesses of slaves weren’t treated adequately‚ and slaves were forced to work even while sick. (“Conditions
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