Chapter 11 • Enlightenment – age of reason‚ logic‚ and science • Emotion and feeling towards ppl less fortunate • Americans wanted an American culture – American sculptures‚ American art‚ American writers‚ American literature‚ etc. • Americans think that they are inferior over Europe • In America you can succeed • During this time we started moving away from the E. Period and started believing in the idea of going with your gut feeling and start making an American culture • Some things
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Industrialization after the Civil War in America had absolute outcomes on society‚ economy and politics. These outcomes changed farms to cities in society‚ also‚ came the emergence of major and lastly‚ prominent also corrupt businessmen ruled the government. After the civil war industrialization helped our society‚ the economy and also corrupt businessmen that ruled the government. Our society improved due to the freeing of slaves to women rights improving. The economy developed a corporate
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the role of wife‚ mother‚ and caretaker. Women endured this type of prejudiced behavior since the dawn of time until the first women’s movements began to develop during the 1800’s in the United States and Europe. These women’s movements are often referred to as feminist movements or feminism. The development of feminism in the 1800’s was a very crucial part of history because women began the long road of gaining women’s rights with the Seneca Falls Convention‚ the founding of the National American Woman
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closest to them. Researches do not know exactly how many routes there were but they think there were at least 29 different ones. “While the number is often debated‚ some believe that as many as 100‚000 slaves escaped on the Underground Railroad between 1800 and 1865‚” (Teacher.scholastic.com). Using these escapes their and their family’s life tremendously. While the slaves were traveling to safety they had to stop at safe houses overnight. There were people who planned to have the slaves stay and sleep
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The impact that industrialization had on the Guilded Age was huge. Companies could manufacture products a lot more efficiently than before. Talented Craftsmen were being fired and replaced by unskilled immigrants that were willing to be paid less‚ and not as many people were needed for a factory to run properly. These are just a few examples of the major impact that industrialization ha on the Guilded age. Industrialization was basically large scale companies obtaining machines to be able to mass
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The Scarlet Letter By Sarah Johnston Nathaniel Hawthorne used his writing skills to appropriately show the strict intolerant ways of the disciplined Puritan America of 1850‚ with his novel The Scarlet Letter. This novel has become a classic‚ because of the accurate portrayal of the conservative Puritan ways. His novel is one of few to tell of the true Puritan lifestyle. Hawthorne explains the ways in which society cast out any individual for standing apart from the common crowd. The ways in which
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presidential elections. This was especially true with the Compromise of 1850. Two large faces in America at the time‚ John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster‚ had opposing views on what would be the ideal decision for the better good. The Compromise of 1850 included five bills passed to keep power balanced between slave and non-slave states following America’s investment in new territory after the Mexican-American War.1 During the 1850s there were influential speeches spoken by both Calhoun and Webster‚ could
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The introduction of industrialization on America had an unprecedented impact on the average family culturally‚ numerically‚ and social economically. After the civil war‚ America began to industrialize heavily. During the civil war‚ the United States Government implemented the federalization of all the major railroad companies as well as all factories that produced war materials. This lead to a new and unprecedented efficiency in industrialization which eventually lead to the defeat of the confederacy
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In comparing the three authors and the literary works of women authors‚ Kate Chopin (1850 -1904)‚ "The Awakening"‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s (1860-1935)‚ "The Yellow Wallpaper"‚ and Edith Wharton ’s (1862-1937) "Souls Belated"‚ many common social issues related to women are brought to light‚ and though subtly pointed out are an outcry against the conventions of the time. In these three stories‚ which were written between 1899 and 1913‚ the era was a time in which it seems‚ women had finally awaken
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Since the 19th century‚ industrialization has had positive and negative effects on the live of workers. Industrialization is the process of modernization and mass production of most goods. This also includes but not limited to mining and the forging of iron. An area where industrialization had a massive effect was in Eastern Europe. It emerged as a need to modernize and unify Europe. Although Britain led industrialization at first‚ it quickly exploded from Spain all the way through Russia. <br> <br>Early
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