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    Oscar Wilde observed in the late 1800s that progress is made when people are disobedient and rebel against authorities. Think about problems that needed to be challenged‚ things where the rules were too strict to follow and still make the change wanted by many. Some occurrences are when Americans left the control of the British‚ abolishing slavery‚ and historical people like Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. A world without this history of taking a stand against authorities would be way

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    In the late 1800-early 1900s‚ immigrants began to settle in cities in large numbers. As a result of this increase in population‚ cities began to grow and change. People who come to life perinatally in a foreign country are known as immigrants. Immigrants came to america to start new and better lives. Immigrants came from all different countries but in the late 1800-early 1900s immigrants mainly came from europe and asia. Immigrants would take a long journey to ellis island‚ where they would take

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    Prior to the 1800s the Jews were persecuted for their religious beliefs. After the 1800s they were looked upon as the killer of Jesus‚ and was subjected to punishment by local governments‚ religious leaders‚ and dictators.  One of the monumental blows dealt to the Jews was in 586 B.C.E.  It was then that the Jews were exiled in Babylonia by the conquering King‚ Nebuchadnezzar II.  There exile would last almost fifty years. In 167 B.C.E. the ruler Antiochus IV took over the Jewish temple with the

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    When the word “gang” is mentioned the first thought that comes to mind is a person wearing baggy clothes‚ a bandana across the forehead and tattoos all over the body. That is a stereotype. Obviously back when gangs were first initiated in the 1800s they did not dress like that. Not all gangs are associated with colors‚ signs or names. A gang is defined as a group of criminals or a number of people forming a group (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary). In fact the word “gang” actually originated from

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    many Americans as business owners became more rich and the workers became more poor. Life became difficult for many workers and others had to live and work in unsafe conditions. The Progressive movement that began in the late 1800s was an attempt to bring reforms and address the problems in American life. These reforms focused on

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    Society of the 1800s During the 1800s there were three prominent cultures that could be found within Antebellum or Pre-Civil War America. These cultures include the North‚ South‚ and the Southern Black or Slave culture. These societies differed in many ways‚ some to an extreme degree. The Northern culture is the closest to the modern day America that we know as it was the most progressive culture. The Southern culture was extremely elitist and intolerant of social reform not benefiting the slave

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    Progressives In The 1800s

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    Grade 8 Progressives in the late 1800s-1900s Our nation lost its way during the Gilded Age (1870s-1920s). The Gilded Age was a term made up by Mark Twain due to him having a book called the Gilded Age‚ which satirized American society in the late 1800s. It was a time of government corruption‚ poverty‚ and awful labor conditions but it being covered up by big businesses‚ or “gilded”. Progressives were people who were advocating social reforms such as the prohibition of alcohol

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    In the late 1700’s and 1800s the systematic importation of African slaves from their native continent across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World‚ also known as the Atlantic slave trade‚ took place. With the demand for rice‚ sugar‚ and tobacco growing higher‚ the demand for labor grew with it. There different forms of slavery and different treatment of slaves around the world. The biggest contrast in slavery was the slavery in North America and South America. The first Europeans to capture and sell

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    In the beginning of the twentieth century the African Americans of the United States were treated unfairly‚ to inhumane extremes‚ with acts so cruel that they would scar Americans for decades to come. During these years‚ Americans were almost a different culture than the Americans of today. With years of oppression‚ government sponsored segregation‚ corruption in most all of the systems of government‚ and large groups of crazy racist‚ the America for African Americans then‚ was hardly even a real

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    Sparked by first the growth of the planters which then led to manufacturing and factories‚ all this new growth lead to strains and changes in relationships in both the work place and in the home as women strived to become more independent. In the early days‚ factory girls were not popular‚

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