In the 1800s people with mental illness were thought to be insane. Patients were placed inside institutes similar to a prison they were beaten and abused as a way of trying to cure them. Some families would try and take care of their ill family member(s) to avoid treatment at an institution. Though workers of the institute had tried to keep the ways of treatment secretive; many people did not know of the treatment in Mental institutes and had been curious about what it was like for those inside of
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Progressivism was an era in the late 1800’s in which many reforms were made to industry‚ living conditions‚ and politics. This movement gained momentum due in a large part to populism and the Populist Party. This party was among the first‚ to actively speak out and make attempts at reform. The Omaha Platform was the very beginning of reformation. If it hadn’t been for this party‚ it can be assumed that there would not be as many regulations and freedoms as there are today. The first attempt at
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success of the last‚ it is important to identify who broke ground first. Even though recent women’s movements have been more substantial‚ the movements in the 19th century were the pivotal beginnings. Some of the most influential steps took place in the 1800’s as women strove to stand for causes they believed in‚ such as the temperance movement and the acknowledgement of domestic abuse as a legitimate reason for divorce. The movements of this era aimed to address the physical safety of women initially
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While the doctors were giving treatments‚ their work area was not very sanitary and that caused a high risk of infection. Also‚ most of the doctors had no idea what they were doing because they had no formal education of medicine. In the 1800s most of the medicine practiced was based off of a logical guess then prayers to get better. Soon the sickness was only identified by its symptoms rather than the sickness itself. Most treatments went straight to bleeding‚ and sometimes the given
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During the 1800s‚ Great Britain was making great new changes to its nation new advances in technology‚ and a rapid growth in the population‚ especially‚ in urban areas of the country which resulted the increase of supply and demand. Factory owners only had one problem they didn’t have enough workers‚ and didn’t want to take lots of money out of their pockets to provide new employees. The solution was finally found they found people who could be paid the cheapest wages‚ work long hours‚ and are fast
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was an important act in achieving immigration rights. The act was put in place to outlaw Chinese immigration. The Chinese had fled into our country‚ becoming immigrants‚ because the Americans saw that they were good workers and good people to hire because of loyalty and dedication. Unfortunately this didn’t end as planned because the Chinese started overpopulating our country and taking the jobs. The Chinese Exclusion act of 1882 was passed for a couple of reasons
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Pro Speech (4 mins.) At the age of five‚ Enrique’s mother‚ a woman struggling with poverty and two children to feed left him‚ and his seven year old sister in mexico to find work in America and support them. Eleven years later he set out to find his mother leaving behind his life in mexico and a pregnant girlfriend. it took him eight attempts a journey of 122 days and 12‚000 miles across the mexican border. Although once in he was soon deported. Enrique is one of the other estimated 15‚000 parentless
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demanded the expansion of money supply with silver to repay loans‚ but the nobody helped them. In fact big business accused the farmers that the debts was their own fault because of over production as showed in a cartoon by a Chicago newspaper in late 1800‚
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The 1800s were a time full of growth and modernization. The geography of countries plays a big roll in their economy and the resources they can provide for themselves. The fact that Great Britain and Japan are both island nations has lead them to develop around their location and limitations. Great Britain is a big island located to the west of the European continent. The geography of England made it easy to protect and to trade. "[British] ports command an unobstructed passage to the Atlantic
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The Penny Press was developed during a very dynamic and colorful period in American history. In the early 1800s‚ newspapers were biased and controlled by political parties that only reported on political news. Social‚ economic‚political and cultural conditions created a new form of journalism which began during the penny press. For once readers were able to read a newspaper and not just view it. This new press refelcted the new politics going on in America. Many historians believed that the nations
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