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    The Temperance Movement The temperance movement is a social movement that started in the early 19th century‚ with the objective of advocating for the reduction and prohibition of alcohol beverages usage. The movement was‚ by far‚ one of the most successful and largest reform movements of the early 1800s (McConnell 43). They promoted complete abstinence and criticized excessive use of alcohol. Prior to the initiation of this movement‚ there were several publications against drunkenness and excessive

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    Racism‚ it started so long ago and still goes on now. It’s just stupid‚ hating people because of their color is wrong and it doesn’t matter which color does the hating‚ it just plain wrong. It’s not about being black or white because we are all human. Through out trials people‚ found out their flaws in jury cases such as Dred Scott v. Sanford‚ Plessy v. Ferguson‚ and Brown v. Board of Education ‚with people fighting for justice ‚freedom ‚rights and beliefs. In 1846 a slave named Dred Scott and his

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    10/5/13 In the 17th Century people talked about ‘the world turned upside down’ because they felt that there was so many things that changed in that century that if somebody had left England in 1600 and arrived again in 1700‚ it have changed so much that the world would have seemed upside-down. However‚ there is disagreement about how much it changed‚ as some things still stayed the same during that time‚ and in this essay I will explore to what extent England was changed in this time‚ and

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    PHILIPPINES IN RIZAL’S TIME 19th Century - Rizal was born and raised in a period of massive changes in Europe‚ Spain and the Philippines.  - During this era‚ the glory and power of Spain had waned in both in her colonies and the world.  - Social scientists marked this period as the birth of modern life as well as the birth of many nation states around the world. The birth of modernity was precipitated by three great revolutions around the world:   the Industrial Revolution in England‚ the French Revolution

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    status of European Women from the sixteenth to early twenty first century. Women in the sixteenth‚ seventeenth‚ and eighteenth centuries were challenged with expressing themselves in a government controlled by men a system that generally refused to grant permissions to women’s views. Cultural and political events during these centuries increased attention to women’s issues such as education reform‚ and by the end of the eighteenth century‚ women were not able to speak out against injustices. Though modern

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    Slavery has been around for millennia and had been a plague on the mankind for far too many years until the 19th century. The 19th century was a time of great change politically‚ economically‚ and socially‚ and included the abolition of slavery. The problem with analyzing the abolition of slavery in all of the nations that did at this time is that each is so unique that it is difficult to accurately compare and contrast them because they all had different linguistic‚ cultural‚ and ethnic differences

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    The increase in sectionalism and the tensions that arose from it was surprising to me because I naively assumed the United States was for the most completely united at this point in Antebellum America. The political polarization and its dramatic impact on the political landscape of the 1850s was very interesting to learn about. The creation of two political parties‚ Democrats and Whigs‚ really cemented the notion of the divide between North and South. The rise of such parties as the Free-Soil Party

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    Even in the early infancy of America‚ it is evident that it’s people desired to expand and grow their tiny nation. The New World held so many opportunities for the foreign people with its abundance of land. Though the prosperity of expansion was a major factor‚ moving into the unexplored land was a cause for most of the countries battles. But‚ the people’s craving for land was insatiable once they started to branch out. Land was power‚ and the more you had the better off you’d be in terms of foreign

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    The Living and the Dead: The Road to Independence The characters in Irish Folklore contribute to the culture of Irish history‚ specifically‚ to the Ireland’s desire of independence from England. Different works of Irish literature seem to follow the theme of Independence but act the work out in varying ways. Contributing to the want of Independence is the relationship between the living and the dead. Often in written works‚ the dead inspire the living to fight for what they want to see change

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    American Women in the 19th vs. 20th Century For many of the American history‚ women were not considered equal to men and were denied equality in many areas in life. In the 19th century women had no legal identity‚ apart from their husband. Married women could not hold property in their own names‚ make contracts‚ sit on a jury‚ write a will‚ or vote. Nor did women have the same opportunities for education and careers that men had. Yet‚ many women found ways to show their intelligence‚ courage‚

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