In the late 19th century the government reaction was one of Laissez Faire to poverty. Minimal intervention through the workhouse (expanded after the Poor Law Amendment act of 1834) where eligibility criteria was enclosed to try to scale down the worst excesses of poverty and squalor. People arrived at the realisation that poverty was due to social and economic factors outside the person’s control. Poverty had more or less vanished from the political radar in the early 1950s. However‚ came back into
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Looking back at the late 19th century and early 20th century‚ America engaged in acts of imperialism that left the country forever changed. This imperialism period was made up of nations expanding their influence and power to other countries around the world through diplomacy or military force. Along with other countries‚ the United States gained a bigger influence and authority in foreign places. The United States wanted to imperialize because the country was threatened by other foreign countries
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has sought to expand‚ control‚ or influence nations and their people that are not strong enough to defend themselves successfully. The United States almost always has something to gain when “helping” other countries. At the end of the nineteenth century‚ the United States stated to realize what potential they had as a world power. They had become the leading producer of wheat and cotton. They developed as an industrial nation‚ and were successful with producing favorable international treaties
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streets to selling newspapers‚ matches‚ and apples. As the teenage son of Irish immigrants‚ George Washington Plunkitt realized that there were two quick roads out of poverty: prizefighting or politics. He swiftly chose politics. "You can’t begin too early in politics if you want to succeed at the game‚" Plunkitt said. When Plunkitt was only 12 years old‚ he worked around the district headquarters and polling stations during Election
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During the 19th century‚ the United States had began to expand it’s territory towards the western frontier. This era of U.S. history was dominated by the belief in manifest destiny – the idea that the United States was destined to expand to the west coast‚ and was justified in doing so (History.com Staff‚ 2010). However‚ settlers heading west faced many hindrances to their grand plans along their way‚ including the Native Americans‚ who had been living on the land for centuries before western expansion
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Jacob Riis played a central role in the debate over the causes and consequences of urban problems in the late 19th century. Riis was a photographer who started as a poor immigrant from Denmark. Initially Riis worked low paying jobs until he eventually found his calling in police reports and later photography. As a police reporter‚ Riis had unique access to the city’s slums. In the evenings‚ he would accompany law enforcement and members of the health department on raids of the tenements‚ witnessing
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The start of twentieth century was a period of revelations of new innovation‚ presenting another way of life‚ and new thoughts. Amid that time‚ there were new manifestations‚ for example‚ autos‚ radio‚ and transmit. Such creations influenced masses of individuals. The lifestyle turned out to be faster and correspondence significantly less demanding. Many individuals‚ who were influenced extraordinarily by such changes‚ brainstormed of new thoughts concerning the general public in a wide range of
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Discuss the artistic movements of the eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. How does one lead to another and what values conflict and produce the change. The eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were characterized by four major artistic movements. They were Neoclassicism‚ Romanticism‚ Realism‚ and Modernism. More often than not‚ these movements represented clear break with old and transition to new social‚ political‚ and cultural ideologies. Through music‚ literature
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all. In the late 1800s‚ blue-collar workers carried their lunches to work in metal pails‚ which protected their food from the rigors of the workplace. In fact‚ your lunch pail illustrated your place on the economic scale -- a lunch pail meant you couldn’t afford a hot noontime meal. This didn’t stop children from wanting to emulate their working parents‚ however. Soon enough‚ kids fashioned their own lunch pails from tin boxes that were originally used to hold cookies or tobacco. Early mass-produced
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The Populist Party was a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century. It flourished particularly among western farmers‚ based largely on its opposition to the gold standard. Although the party did not remain a lasting feature of the political landscape‚ many of its positions have become adopted over the course of the following decades. The very term "populist" has since become a generic term in U.S. politics for politics which appeals to the common person in opposition
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