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    19th Century “Freedom” In the 19th century‚ freedom had various meanings to different groups of people. A people’s class‚ race‚ or gender heavily swayed the ways in which they defined the term freedom. A white male‚ for example‚ would have had a vastly different view of what freedom meant than a runaway slave would have had. For example‚ since white men were not enslaved‚ from their perspective‚ freedom may include having the right to bear arms and freedom of speech. Whereas‚ a runaway slave may

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    In the early 19th century‚ the Canadian government embedded an Immigration policy with the Continuous Journey Regulation that requires each person to pay $200 cash. A Punjab merchant named Gurdit Singh Sirhali started the movement of migrants to aboard a ship. Komagata Maru the steamship included 376 Indians men (340 of them were Sikhs‚ 12 Hindus‚ and 24 Muslims) that were challenged of admittance to the country. Due to British Colonists enforcing “The White Man Canada” policy‚ it restricts non-white

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    A desire for Equality The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hosted uproar among the women of America who sought equal representation and rights from the U.S. government. Among the female activists‚ authors‚ such as Willa Cather and Louisa May Alcott‚ began to commence about women’s suffrage through their writing. A multitude of other women‚ such as Anne Sullivan‚ began to feel empowered to become independent and strong females‚ just as able and equal as men. Women faced an immense amount

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    Modernisim covers many poltitcal and cultural movements that are rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. American modernism benefited from the immense diversity of immigrant cultures. Modernist America had to find solidarity in a world no longer unified in belief. The unity found lay in the understanding of the shared consciousness within all human experience. The relevance of the individual is emphasized; the truly limited nature of the

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    Throughout the course of the semester‚ the American identity has been influenced over three hundred years of the existence from colonist to the 20th century ideologists in order to improve the way of life in America. From the colonial period‚ one individual helped formulate the American perspective and help provide cause for the future Bill of Rights. During the tough period of slavery in the South‚ the United States was spilt whether slavery should be abolished. The President of the United States

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    In the 19th century‚ Thomas Jefferson and James Madison sent the U.S Navy into the Mediterranean to defeat the Barbary pirates. Piracy was a major concern for decades but it took a long time for military action to be taken due to insufficient funds. Barbary pirates from the northern coast of North Africa "preyed on commerce in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean." They terrorized people for ransom money and blackmail. Just like today‚ religion is an important determinant of victims. Pirates were Muslims

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    Industrial nineteenth century‚ many religions adapted their beliefs and practices to the environment around them. Catholicism‚ as it was worshiped by Greek and Italian immigrants‚ looked vastly different from the ways in which the Americanized Roman Catholics worshiped. Judaism experienced this acclimatization as well‚ with Orthodox Jews and Reformed Jews sharing more differences than they did similarities. As time progressed gender norms began to evolve in American society‚ thus religions were forced

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    The nineteenth century is often regarded as being synonymous with sexual repression‚ this notion is not true‚ and during this era in American history many diverse views about sex and sexuality were developed. This paper will focus on the diverse ideas about sexuality and gender that were developed and what existing or developing ideologies led to these perspectives. The first idea that was developed about sexuality was Vernacular sexual culture; it acknowledges sex and desire as vital aspects of

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    Starting around the 19th century‚ imperialism is the act of one country taking control of another. Throughout the 1800s‚ a myriad of European countries dominated other‚ smaller countries. The leaders of the imperialist countries justified this act by saying it was their duty to spread their religion‚ language‚ and government to the “savage” and “uncivilized” natives (their “white man’s burden”). Imperialist nations were also constantly competing with each other for superiority and ascendancy. They

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    exceptions. One such exception can be found within the youthful work force of the Eastern side of New York‚ on Bowery street‚ where a culture was born out of the common class experience of being plebian-counterparts to the high-class aristocratic society found on the Western side of New York‚ on Broadway. Bowery street‚ and Bowery culture‚ was proudly developed

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