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    house and carrying out the domestic duties‚ while also being the caregiver to their children. They did not have many rights‚ but since this was the traditional and natural order in their society‚ it remained for many years. During the late 1700’s leading on to the 1800s‚ different events occurred and dramatically affected their society‚ paving the path towards

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    Many alcoholics were sent to alcohol addiction centers and alcohol asylums. These places often didn’t make a difference in the patients drinking habits. Soon though‚ in the 1940’s Alcoholics Anonymous support groups began popping up in major U.S. Cities. Soon these groups began diffusing around America‚ and many lives were saved because of these groups. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are still one way that alcoholics receive treatment

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    In the early 1800s‚ the ideal woman was a sophisticated being. Intelligence‚ virtue and wittiness were all key character traits that every male would have fallen for in a female. However‚ this idea of the perfect woman has taken a huge leap backwards in modern society. Men have drastically changed their views on ‘what is hot and what is not’ in a female. Should men still be pursuing the ideal woman represented in the 1800s? More importantly‚ does the contemporary mentality of the ideal woman yield

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    The romantic period in American history came around during the early 1800s. It was an artistic and literary movement that started in Europe and eventually spread to America. Romanticism was used in many songs‚ art‚ poems‚ and stories during this time. It included a lot of emotion and colors used to describe and create stories. There were many stories and poems created during this period and some of the stories are still read today. The authors during this time period used more emotion rather than

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    In the late 1800s and early 1900s the majority of American people supported a policy of imperialism. Imperialism is the practice of one country extending its control over the territory‚ political system‚ or economic life of another country. Political opposition to this foreign domination is called "anti-imperialism." The U.S. had followed basic policy of isolationism since the War of 1812. The U.S. had concentrated on the Civil War‚ winning the West‚ and the Industrial Revolution. There were some

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    During the time of the 1900s‚ we have seen the disgusting ways African Americans were treated. We have seen the selling‚ leasing‚ and physically punishing someone. There was torment that a human being had to go through because they were taken away from their homeland and were considered “slaves”. Now you would probably think that between enslaved men and women that enslaved women would have less suffering to go through. Completely false. Women were given the hardest workload and the hardest time

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    From the early stages of colonization‚ the institution of slavery would continually become established within the United States. This creation not only functioned as a system of labor‚ but also as a system for regulating the relations between the races. The North and South profited greatly at the expense of shackled and separated families‚ up until the early 1800s as the idea of slavery became a topic to be repeatedly examined. Slavery was not only a practice of owning a person‚ but controlling

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    The Irish emigrated from Ireland to America at two separate times‚ during the 1700’s and again in the 1800s. During the 1700’s the Irish that emigrated were the Ulster Irish‚ these were mostly Protestant and mostly from the northern part of Ireland. This group of Irish was originally from Scotland which was under English rule. In 1533 when Henry VIII separated from the Catholic Church‚ he enacted penal laws - laws directed against Catholics. Catholic owned land was seized and given to the English

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    Treatment and punishment towards prisoners during the 1900s for their beliefs was extremely unfair and some unnecessary. Men chose to fight for what the belief in and do what they thought was right but received endless jail time and cruel punishment. Three men specifically whose names are Philip Grosser‚ Robert Lipscomb‚ and Morton Sobell. They all had their way taking action in what they believed in but were punished. Standing up for what you believe in should never come at cost where you lose

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    a much different union then seen in previous years. IWW believed that most trade unions during it’s promoted same industry worker competition. To be specific‚ this ultimately would lead worker competition especially seen in terms of wages. In the 1900s there where multiple different unions; each of which was usually divided by race‚ gender‚ or skill. The IWW (Industrial workers of the world) sought a very different type of union apart from trade or craft. For the first time a union truly wanted

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