Americans worked hard to promote the idea of democracy and human rights. Reform movements had a major impact in expanding democratic ideals. It promoted democracy effectively throughout the nation. Between the years 1825-1850‚ reform movements sought to expand and emphasize democratic ideals in order to maintain a more equal society for all. The Second Great Awakening‚ led by Charles G. Finney‚ played an important role in the reform movements that expanded the idea of democracy. The period of religious
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Most people regard industrialization as a positive development capable of generating great wealth and revitalizing run-down areas. Mention industrialization today‚ and it brings to mind large factories organized with the latest technologies in mass producing. Along with these visions comes the promise of more jobs for the community‚ higher rates of pay‚ and financial stability. One can only think of the positive influences on a community that the opening of a new factory could bring‚ but during what
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Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible Did you know‚ Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible both became the leaders of Russia at under the of 16? While Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible strengthened the central government and took power from the nobles‚ Ivan the Terrible gained loyalty through death threats‚ whereas Peter the Great gave land to the poor to make them loyal. Peter the Great was born in Moscow‚ Russia in 1672. Peter took over as ruler in 1682‚ after Ivan V’s death. When he became ruler at the age of ten
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characteristics of industrialization: Improved standards of living‚ New Inventions‚Railroads‚ Laissez-faire and free enterprise‚ Urbanization‚ Immigration‚ Labor Unions‚ Indian Removal. After the Gilded Age‚ came the Progressive era‚ the progressive era was the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems of rapid industrialization introduced to America. Final but not least World War 1 was the era of a different or more modern technology or any type of industrialization for back
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crashed and the house of cards fell. The Great Depression began‚ marking the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States of America. The economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed. Henry Ford had to close several factories in Detroit in 1931‚ putting 75‚000 people of their jobs. By 1933‚ 25% of the American public was unemployed. Tariffs‚ war debt‚ crisis in farmland‚ accessible credit and an unequal distribution of income promoted the Great Depression. Tariffs and extreme war
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dramatic‚ yet selective‚ internal changes. Peter the Great led the first westernization of Russia in history‚ permanently changing Russia and providing a model from which westernization attempts elsewhere were based on. Westernization was used by Peter and his successors to promote Russia’s expansionist empire without intending to transform Russia into a truly Western society. By the end of the 17th century‚ Russia had become one of the great land empires while maintaining a highly agriculturally
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Historians have concluded‚ that the economic impact of the first World War caused the Great Depression in the1930s. Yet they disagree as to whether exogenous shocks or economic stagnation following the war lead to the depression. Peter Temin‚ Christina Romer and Michael Calamaris believe that a series of monetary shocks during the late 1920s‚ that had their origins during and after the great war‚ turned an economic downturn of 1929 into the depression of the 30s. Temin argues that the “collapse of
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The Reformation – Harry Russell The great reformation was a time when the Presbyterian and other religious churches split off from the Catholic Church because they did not believe in the Catholic Churches teachings. This happened in the sixteenth century‚ mostly because of one very important person martin Luther. Martin Luther started out wanting to be a lawyer‚ but one day was caught in a lightning storm and thought he was going to die. He then swore that if he lived he would swear his life to
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During the post Civil War period‚ the United States entered a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. The United States transitioned from being a rural country to becoming an urban country. Citizens moved from the countryside and crowded cities. Cities like New York City‚ Chicago‚ Cleveland‚ Pittsburgh… gained an influx of citizens and immigrants. From this rapid industrialization and urbanization many positive and negative effects arose affecting the sociological‚ economical‚ and political
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THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION 1.- Population and Economic Growth One of the most important changes was the continuous expansion of the population and the economy. Most observers in the eighteenth century did not believe that expansion of the population and the economy could be sustained indefinitely. The population had consistently expanded as the greater agricultural productivity permitted maintaining an adequate food supply. The industrial economy had been able to employ large numbers
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