malaria‚ and diphtheria. The average American city during the 19th century was a breeding ground for the frequent epidemics that occurred‚ killing thousands. Port cities were particularly susceptible to epidemics of infectious disease. New York‚ Boston‚ and Philadelphia were places where ships carrying foreign goods-and disease- were unloaded; they were also where potentially infected immigrants disembarked. Toward the end of the 19th century‚ as people searched for a way to control infectious diseases
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While opera had been thriving in Europe since its beginnings in the 16th century‚ 19th century America was still a relatively young‚ focusing its growth elsewhere. Musically‚ opera did not appeal to the common American‚ who was much more interested in simpler tastes. Interest in opera was mostly shared among the upper class elite‚ and due to the lack of a middle class‚ wasn’t largely established in the general public until the turn of the 20th century. Socioeconomic limitations reinforced the exclusivity
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main factors of imperialism in the 19th century were economics‚ military/ technological advancements and cultural/social differences. After European countries became industrialized‚ they started to colonize countries in weaker continents like Asia and Africa. The industrial revolution combined with a sense of superiority greatly enabled the expansion of European dominance in countries that were less equipped to protect themselves. The economic differences in Europe and Africa caused imperialism between
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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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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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occured from 1870 onwards. European countries were the biggest imperialist during 19th century‚ their policy of extending their state over other territories were mass in area. Conquering from Africa to Asia. Here are some facts: in the 1875 10% of Africa was ruled by european countries and by 1895 90% of Africa was ruled by europeans. There are several important causes of new imperialism in the late 19th Century. Such as economical and political causes and social cause. Politics is one of the
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Hysteria‚ a disorder associated widely with women in the late 19th century‚ has since disappeared from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Although this diagnosis has gradually declined‚ during the late 19th century there was an increase of European women with this doctors’ diagnosis. The leading medical experts in Europe believed various different cause along with a symptomology expression. Sigmund Freud‚ Jean Charcot and Josef Breuer were some of the experts who were proposing
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stronger military‚ and a thirst for new markets. Imperialism in the U.S. was important because of the expansion of their nation. By the 1880’s American leaders believed that they should join the imperialist powers in Europe and establish colonies overseas. Throughout the 19th century America extended their control towards the Pacific Ocean. The manifest destiny fueled the expansion of territory. John L. O’Sullivan said‚ “Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted
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factor in America‚ the first people to land in America in as early as the 10th and 11th century were Immigrants. Immigration began building America especially in the 19th century when Immigrants from all over the world began to come to here for economic opportunities and religious freedom. These people were known as the ‘Old Immigrants”‚ the majority of these said immigrants were from Northern or Western Europe. They were the first mass wave of immigration to come to american shores in a hope for
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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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