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    The varying degrees of sexual independence in Philadelphia during the early 1700s-early 1800s were representative of the social and political issues of the period. Pre-Revolution‚ colonists successfully decimated the strict boundaries of British common law in regard to marital divorce and expanded the desire for personal freedom to a powerful platform: sex. Philadelphia’s shifting sexual parameters reflected the overarching gender‚ class‚ and racial growing pains felt by a newly formed nation. The

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    Women’s suffrage was a difficult topic in the late 1800s early 1900s because women wanted to have a voice in their community while men thought that women were weak and should be silenced. Woman fought for their rights‚ impacting everyone globally and showing men that they had a strong opinion and wouldn’t be silenced even if the consequences meant getting arrested or being deported. Many people were against women’s suffrage because they believed that women should be the ones who should stay at

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    America had remained mostly an isolated country until the late 1800s when the United States was faced with the opportunity of building a colonial empire. By 1890 the United States‚ like Europe‚ had began to expand its influence onto islands in the Caribbean and South Pacific areas. They entered in other countries’ affairs claiming that it served the interests of all peoples and were motivated by Idealism. In reality‚ the United States was mostly after its own self-interest. The Spanish-American

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    In this essay I will be tracing the change in women in the consumer culture in France in the late 1800s to through the 1920’s‚ using the works of Mary Louise Roberts Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Woman’s Fashion in 1920’s France‚ and Judith G. Coffin’s Credit‚ Consumption‚ and Images of Women’s Desires: Selling the Sewing machine in late Nineteenth- Century France. 1880’s and 1890’s mark an important turning point in the history of advertising and credit. In the larger cities

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    Baseball has been America’s pastime since the late 1800s. White men were the only ones who played the sport. Major League Baseball denied the access of allowing black players to play on the same field as the white players. They believed it would increase the amount of black fans coming to the stadiums and push away the white fans from coming to watch baseball anymore. In 1945‚ a new commissioner of baseball was hired‚ Happy Chandler‚ and he was more supportive of integrating the major leagues. People

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    Back in the 1800s and early 1900s‚ there were limited contraceptions available to women. In this time period‚ pregnancy contraceptives were at a different stage compared to where they are nowadays. The forefront problem was that contraceptives were outlawed. Physicians could not give advice‚ hand out contraceptives‚ or discuss the contraceptives with you (Baughman). Similarly‚ you could not purchase contraceptives from a pharmacy (Baughman). The growth of the science of this generation created

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    In the 1800s married women were treated unfair and unequal‚ and in this case inequality of all women‚ of all races‚ was very evident by the way women were merely property. State law governed in all states that married women were legal possessions rather than equal persons. Married women could not own any personal possession or property‚ all they had‚ became their husbands. In the 1800s women had no rights to vote‚ and women would not have the right to vote until 1920. There were unequal wages for

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    was established at a point on the Richibucto River just a few miles from its mouth‚ and was the beginning of the settlement of Kingston‚ now Rexton. As in the other areas one of the primary objectives of shipbuilding in the Richibucto area in these early years was to convey fish and lumber to the markets of Britain and the U.S.‚ so the ELLEN DOUGLAS was used to ship lumber to Great Britain‚ but she returned with a more valuable things like new settlers for the area. Through the numbers of men John

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    European Imperialism in Africa As a whole‚ Africa was ruined by the Europeans’ greed during the early 1900s. The European countries were very strong nationalists and they came together and decided to show their superiority by imperializing other continents and countries rather than fight with each other. They chose Africa as the best place to imperialize because of its natural resources and availability. This is what introduced the Berlin Conference. At this meeting‚ representatives from Great

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    two of the most famous African Americans in the 1900s‚ entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. and comedian Flip Wilson‚ were born. Sammy Davis Jr. was born December 8‚ 1925 in New York‚ New York. Davis had one sister named Ramona Sanchez. Sammy Davis Jr. was raised by his paternal grandmother originally‚ but after his parents divorced‚ he went to live with his father. Due to performing on tour with his father and adopted uncle‚ he never received

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