“gilded” time new inventions were being created‚ and factories were being revolutionized and more and more jobs were being created. With rapid population growth comes rapid growth of problems. Jobs were being created as fast as people were willing to fill them. Businesses everywhere were booming. But after a while‚ workers grew tired of the strict and demanding work conditions. Factory workers in this time were working in extremely poor conditions and had no power. Workers were often abused by the factory
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lot of significant historical developments in the 19th century. The most important one had to be the advances in medicine. This also includes more knowledge and understanding of the human anatomy and also disease prevention. This were important developments because they were in part responsible for the accelerated growth in population around the western part of the world. In specific‚ Europe’s population doubled during this time. Another very important historical development in Europe during the 19th
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Who were the progressives? A way to describe a broad‚ loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about significant change in American social and political life. Progressives included forward looking businessmen who realized that workers must be accorded a voice in economic decision making‚ and labor activists bent on empowering industrial workers. Other major contributors to progressivism were members of female reform organizations who hoped to protect women and
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How effective were the methods of the WSPU in their struggle for women’s voting rights The Women’s Social and Political union was founded by Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst‚ in her family home in Manchester‚ on the 10th of October 1903. Mrs Pankhurst and her husband Richard were members of the Independent Labour Party and had been since 1893. Emmeline and her eldest daughter Christabel became the leaders of the organization. The WSPU was the most notorious of all the suffrage movements; splitting from the
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How successful were Alexander reforms in transforming Russian Society by 1881? 24 marks Alexander came to power in 1855‚ but before he became Tsar Alexander witnessed the shameful defeat against Britain‚ France and Turkey in the Crimean War in 1854 This had given him the opportunity to observe some of the problems which Russia faced; Alexander believed that changes had to be made towards modernisation. The population of the Russian Empire was 74 million
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How Free Were Free Blacks in the North? If blacks were free how come they can’t choose who to eat dinner with? In 1860 there were 476‚000 free blacks and there were 471‚000 total slaves. There should be more free blacks than slaves. Free Blacks weren’t really free. Free blacks had to eat‚ go to church‚ and work separately. Free blacks weren’t free because they couldn’t vote. Most states did not let blacks to vote which was unfair. Over half of the states did not allow voting for blacks (Doc A chart)
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can trust‚ be protected by‚ and live their full rights in having freedom. In return minorities have received this delusion of the ever promised freedom for which we originally came for. America is this way because of how we are brought up in the world. It begins with our family and how they perceive race then it is taught to us
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Let’s take a moment and go back to the middle ages. The time where there were castles. My report will cover about castles and their purpose. This subject is important to know about because it was the home for some people. Between 1050 and 1350‚ hundreds of castles were built. The first castles were built as fortresses. Originally castles were built of wood and timber‚ but were later replaced with stone to make them stronger. Castles served as places for people to stay in to live‚ preferably higher
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however there is more to him than what meets the eye. There were social‚ economic‚ and cultural influences on George Washington that affected his lifetime achievements. George Washington was born February 22‚ 1732 to Augustine and Mary Bell Washington. Augustine was a “wealthy planter”(Burn 19) and owned a “plantation sometimes called Pope’s Creek”(Middlekauff 8). “Boys of Washington’s status---he was the son of a tobacco planter---were usually destined to become estate managers”(Middlekauff 7).
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In 1919‚ World War I had finally come to an end‚ leaving most of the world in a post war depression. However‚ in countries like Canada‚ the decade ahead would be filled with amazing growth and change in many ways. The 1920s were an exciting time in Canada because of the economic prosperity‚ technological‚ social and cultural revolutions and growing political responsibility and change in policy that country experienced. These economic‚ social and political changes really made the 1920s in Canada “roar”
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