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    was everywhere at all times‚ schools‚ public transportation‚ drinking fountains and even bathrooms (“Salem Press”). Before the civil war there were no set rules on segregation because most black were slaves‚ so there weren’t many segregation laws‚ how ever all southern states made an informal rule that they couldn’t prohibit segregation (“Salem Press”). This was the very beginning of the Jim Crow laws‚ they were already called Jim Crow laws because the young actor Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice

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    Lourdes Garcia M‚ W‚ F 8:00am How did industrialization impact America after 1800? Why did the industrial revolution happen? How did it change America? What parts of America were most affected? In the 1800’s America had a big boom with their population‚ their income‚ the growth of jobs‚ laws‚ commerce‚ and movements‚ and it began to evolve into a country of hard working people of long hour jobs who would work to make a living and drive the American economy forward‚ also known as the Industrial

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    The Progressive Era was a social and political reformed developed to combat corruption and to further establish a more efficient government. Everybody supported the Progressive Era except the wealthy monopoly sector. Theodore Roosevelt‚ William Howard Taft‚ and Woodrow Wilson are just a few of the presidents who joined efforts to change the American old ways with the new. Three contributions for the Progressive reforming out of many were: journalism discovery known as muckraking‚ economic policy

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    1 Russian reforms started to create industrialization. After Russia lost the Crimean War‚ they saw that they were stuck in the past. While the rest of Europe had gone through an Industrial Revolution improving their militaries and other aspects of their economy‚ Russia was stuck in serfdom without the need to advance. This led Russia to be trying to compete with far superior technologies. The loss showed them that they need to catch up to Europe. They imposed a series of reforms to try and improve

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    “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” This is a quotation by the famous Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the character’s attempt in trying to recapture the past is highly noticeable. Gatsby‚ who is the main character in the novel‚ tries extremely hard to bring back the past. His longing for something he knew years ago drives him to great lengths to get what he has always wanted. Gatsby finds great success in the bootlegging industry in order

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    A cannot be correct‚ because‚ while it was a reason for Hamilton to encourage manufacturing‚ it was not his only reason. Manufacturing would diversify the United State’s largely agricultural economy and reduce the less profitable surplus of agricultural produce while decreasing America’s dependence on trade with Britain. Despite what Jefferson believed‚ Hamilton thought this result of increasing manufacturing would greatly benefit the United States. However‚ this is the incorrect answer‚ because

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    sold into slavery. It’s no surprise that the lower classes of classical Greek society wanted to bring about change to their government. This dissatisfaction with the current political system is what eventually encouraged Cleisthenes to implement his reforms and by extension‚ what caused Democracy to emerge. While Cleisthenes is credited with creating Democracy‚ in order to create it there had to be people before him whose political philosophy influenced him and first put Athens on a path towards Democracy

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    Prison/Asylum Reform (through 1865) The Prison/Asylum movement was established to improve conditions of the mentally ill in prisons. At that time‚ there were cruel and negligent practices in place for the incarcerated mentally ill. There were few people who cared for them and most were forgotten. Some of the awful things done to the prisoners were caging the prisoners‚ confinement deprived of clothing‚ and painful bodily restraint. When the movement began‚ there were a lot of confined individuals

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    Hannibal was losing men left and right but still kept pushing.           Hannibal lost the second war due to Rome cutting off his supply‚ yes Hannibal was winning but he was losing men and supplies. Once again Carthage lost‚ this time it lost the status of great military power. This all lasted from 218 BC thru 201 BC.

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    in the new nation of America. Following those conflicts‚ however‚ came compromises that helped shape the American nation that stands today. At the start of contact with the New World‚ explorers come to find out people of different ethnicities are in fact already living in the New World. This let them know the land was already taken and not in fact new. The Mesoamerican tribes (such as the Maya and Aztec Empires) were the first to have contact with

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