been around for centuries and has origins all the way back in the medieval times. With the lack of knowledge and understanding of what STDs were they were spread quickly and became a widespread epidemic across the world. The most prevalent STDs in Europe were syphilis and gonorrhea. Most people thought they spread by crew who picked up diseas on voyages lead by Christopher Columbus. The voyages believed that they have contracted the diseases in the Americas and spread it in Europe when they returned
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As the 19 century ended and the 20th began‚ the American wave of women pushing for access to the ballot box gathered momentum. As astonishing as it was many women were against the right to vote. These women were referred to in many ways: “anti-suffragettes‚” “anti-suffragists‚” “remonstrates‚” “governmentalists‚” “antis‚” and “naysayers.” Anti-suffragists leaders were not average American women but were women of the higher‚ privileged‚ class. These women were already doing well in society and had
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strategies for delivering riches accessible to everyday citizens. All through the African landmass there was little acknowledgment of rights to private landholding until frontier authorities started forcing European law in the nineteenth century. Land was regularly held mutually by towns or expansive factions and was apportioned to families as per their need. The measure of land a family required was dictated by the quantity of workers that family could marshal to work the land. To build creation
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This panel will introduce you to the societal influences that played a part in recreation and leisure time in the 19th century. Canada was heavily influenced and also dependent on Europe‚ Britain‚ and the Untied States. They relied on these countries for supplies‚ immigrants‚ finances‚ and values. In addition‚ because Britain was such a strong influence to Canada in the 19th century‚ many of the sports and ideas of recreation have an underlying relation or idea from Britain. Churches played
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In the late nineteenth century shortly after the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ farmers in the Midwestern United States found themselves in quite a predicament. During the second industrial revolution of the United States that contained mass introduction of: railroads‚ oil‚ steel‚ and electricity‚ the risk-taking entrepreneurs of this era took an adventure into the world of cutthroat capitalism. In just a little time‚ a handful of monopolies arose in all these industries which hurt both the consumer
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leaders in the nineteenth century believed that it was America’s destiny to expand the nation’s civilization and spread the idea of democracy across the continent. The United States was growing in numbers and economically as a nation. As the colonies are growing‚ land expansion was much needed. More land meant more income opportunities. So America wanted to expand their nation more western towards the pacific coast. The white‚ Protestant American in the mid-nineteenth century defined this progress
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frames for people‚ not to include them‚ but to exclude them. The simplest and most common of these borders include race‚ gender‚ and ability. For the issue of race‚ borders were created by excluding non-white people. Particularly in the nineteenth century‚ during this time slavery was abolished‚ but that does not mean different races were treated well. While slavery was illegal‚ black codes and Jim Crowe laws prevented African Americans from being accepted in to society. Many former slaves
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In a cultural group in the 19th and 20th the western cultures started becoming more modern with technology‚ communication and military(). This modernization had given the western culture more political power and economic success in other cultures(). As the western cultures gained more accomplishments‚ other cultures were more pessimistic about the change and progression(). Non-western cultures were already set in their own ways with their own values. They were not ready to change or modify their
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nineteenth century United States established its political‚ legal‚ diplomatic and social connections with the rest of the world‚ particularly with Great Britain. America’s prestige and influence grew during this time. Diplomats toiled to keep European influence out of America’s westward expansion (The Office of the Historian). However‚ European affairs did impact America. This brief essay examines those influences. European affairs in the first two decades of the nineteenth century impacted development
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characteristics of a city. It wasn’t until about thirty years after the civil war that America started seeing signs of urbanization. In the late nineteenth century‚ America started changing its lifestyle and started going from farming to city life. Cities started growing and more people started living in the cities. The Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th century gave people higher expectations to improve the way of living. Jobs along with technology and transportation increased. Cars and railroads were
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