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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Slavery was practiced in America from the 17th century through the 19th century; Africans were brought over through the middle passage and were sold as chattel to southern plantation owners. Despite the South’s immense support of the institution of Slavery‚ Northern states opposed it and their opposing views resulted
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many countries used slaves from the 17th to the 19th century‚ however‚ this nation was built upon from the hard work of slaves. The southern states were solely built upon this ideology and this would only end after the end of the American Civil War. Slavery was a practice that essentially moved the southern economy‚ there were only a small number of individuals who owned plantations‚ and owned slaves‚ while many were common people. By the 18th century‚ there were nearly 40‚000 slaves in the state
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since the 19th century has been truly amazing. They have gone from not having any anesthesia to the anesthesia being a normal thing now for operations from a simple tooth being pulled to major surgeries like open-heart surgery. Other things that has improved majorly is the cleanliness of the operating rooms and the surgical tools. And lastly the doctors are in school a lot longer then they ever was back in the 19th century. Anesthesia has been an ever-changing item in medicine since the 19th century
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With new ground in design and printing‚ board passes‚ passports and railway timetables were introduced as public transport became a necessity. All of these factors played important roles in the fast development of the transport industry in the 19th century. These travel documents were required for the successful running of this particular industry as everything must be tracked and timed from the timetables to the tickets. Things in Europe were picking up and industries previously made to aid easier
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In The Age of Innocence‚ I found that the topic of women’s roles in the 19th century held a great deal of importance. In the 19th century women lived lives much differently than women of modern day. Men and women were perceived as having extremely different roles and purposes in life. Women were expected to live their lives in private‚ while men were able to go out freely. While men were given powerful attributes‚ women were given weakened attributes. Women were seen as weak‚ domestic‚ emotional
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During the 19th century Americans utilized imperialism to gain power over foreign countries leading America to expand out ward and gain economic growth. The newcomers to the foreign land took advantage of their resources in order to gain power in comparison to other countries and with power soon arose economic problems. The frontier of the newly founded America was soiled with bodies of those whom intention were just as everyone else‚ to expand westward for hopes of expansion and development of the
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History Midterm 2/24/14 Question #5 During the period of American history in the 1800’s to the early 1900’s many topics stick out in one’s mind. We think of words like: freedom‚ progress‚ democracy‚ immigration‚ war‚ and depression. Those are just a few of the important words that period represents. However the word “mission” not only is an important term for this time period but it is a word that is always changing throughout American history. Many will argue that we can still discuss the
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Women’s Rights 19th century |Several activists in antislavery joined the women’s rights movement. Lucy Stone‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Matilda Joslyn Gage‚ Abby Kelley | |Foster‚ and Sojourner Truth are among the most well known. Angelina Grimke and her sister‚ Sarah Grimke worked for women’s rights after a | |career as antislavery lecturers. | |Wendell Phillips‚ William Lloyd Garrison‚ and
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1.What were the causes of the new imperialism of the 19th century and how did it differ from European expansion in earlier periods? Early European expansion was for the most part‚ an economic desire of the country to expand its territory and wealth. This new imperialism of the 19th century was a race to grab up non-European claimed territories to prevent their competition from gaining any advantage. It was also the need to fuel their industrial factories that emerged from the industrial revolution
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