In the late nineteenth century shortly after the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ farmers in the Midwestern United States found themselves in quite a predicament. During the second industrial revolution of the United States that contained mass introduction of: railroads‚ oil‚ steel‚ and electricity‚ the risk-taking entrepreneurs of this era took an adventure into the world of cutthroat capitalism. In just a little time‚ a handful of monopolies arose in all these industries which hurt both the consumer
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In much of the country in the late nineteenth century‚ social tensions were defined in terms of rich versus poor‚ native-born versus immigrant‚ and worker versus capitalist. In the states of the former Confederacy‚ despite all the calls for a New South in the years after Reconstruction‚ tensions continued to center upon the relations between blacks and whites. Throughout the late 19th century‚ 4‚743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Most of these people that were lynched were black
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Many white Christians have believed in being racially and religiously dominate since the early 1000s. Globalization has spread through European colonization‚ leading to the expansion of white supremacy‚ along with racial and religious discrimination towards Muslims‚ Jews‚ Asians‚ and Africans in Western societies. White people have used multiple forms of segregation including the Nuremburg law in Germany during the 1930s-1940s‚ the Jim Crow laws in the southern United States during the late 1800s
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Because many American women of the nineteenth century had very different ideals‚ feminism became a global movement‚ and "early feminists found allies abroad." Many feminists believed that married or not‚ all women deserved the same rights as men. An extreme feminist of her time‚ Margaret Fuller‚ wanted to spread her ideas about women’s rights‚ and she became editor of the New York Tribune in 1844. She later published Woman in the Nineteenth Century in which she. Every path to self-fulfillment‚ she
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and military policies of a decaying Spain and the emerging regional power of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century‚ however‚ placed Puerto Rico‚ along with Cuba‚ at center stage in the Caribbean. Out of all the colonies under Spanish rule‚ the island of Puerto Rico was the only one to never obtain its own independence. The final quarter of the nineteenth century carried dramatic radical‚ social‚ and financial alterations to the island‚ setting the tone for the advancement of its domestic
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many reform acts and the third reform act that added 6 million to the electorate they were still far from universal male suffrage. This would have hindered the socialist movement as it meant that there were many numbers of working class and poverty stricken men who could not vote. This is important‚ as these were the people that the socialist movement would want to appeal to and gain support from. This can be viewed because as male suffrage was improved in the later and early 20th century labour
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and 1914‚ more than 400‚000 Italian immigrants left the United States these were usually single men. This caused anger toward those immigrants who lived the American Dream‚ only to return with American made money to their homelands. During the 19th century‚ the population in Europe experienced an enormous growth but the job market couldn’t meet the needs of that growth. By the end of the 1800’s major cities like New York and Chicago were comprised of a large percentage of immigrants. When immigrants
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The Populist Party was a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century. It flourished particularly among western farmers‚ based largely on its opposition to the gold standard. Although the party did not remain a lasting feature of the political landscape‚ many of its positions have become adopted over the course of the following decades. The very term "populist" has since become a generic term in U.S. politics for politics which appeals to the common person in opposition
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Women’s Rights Movement There were several different reform movements in the 19th century. They were inspired by Transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening. The movements that the Americans started were some of the following: Temperance‚ Abolition‚ Prisons and Asylums‚ Education‚ and Women’s Rights. The latter is one of the biggest‚ most revolutionary of the bunch. The women built their rights movement on their efforts to achieve social justice and to improve the way of life for humans. Starting
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Comenius Project 2006-2007 Spanish women in the 19th century Spanish Women’s History in the 20th century THE EVOLUTION OF EUROPEAN WOMEN THROUGH THE CENTURIES For most of the 19th century‚ Spain was a country in which political participation was restricted to a social minority by means of electoral role‚ in which the electoral practice was characterized by the adulteration of elections and in which the main political agent was the army by means of different “military raisings”
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