multi-family dwelling in the urban core‚ usually old and occupied by the poor.” As New York became more and more crowded with immigrant’s tenements started popping up through the city. There was approximately more than 80‚000 tenements build by 19th century. It is said that they housed approximately 2.3 million immigrants. Tenements featured small cramped apartments with poor ventilation and lack of indoor plumbing. “A typical tenement building had five to seven stories and occupied nearly all
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History 12 12 / 01/ 13 In the nineteenth century‚ in America‚ the role women would play in our society began to change dramatically. This was the beginning of a whole new world for women‚ and America in general. Women began to realize that there were opportunities for them outside of the home‚ and that they could have a place in the world as well as men. It was a time when the feministic view was being born and traditional views of women were changing. First‚ women would play a part in working
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A desire for Equality The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hosted uproar among the women of America who sought equal representation and rights from the U.S. government. Among the female activists‚ authors‚ such as Willa Cather and Louisa May Alcott‚ began to commence about women’s suffrage through their writing. A multitude of other women‚ such as Anne Sullivan‚ began to feel empowered to become independent and strong females‚ just as able and equal as men. Women faced an immense amount
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In the early part of the 19th century‚ the major suffragist movements were for the abolitionist and temperance movements‚ but women were unable to have the impact they could have due to antifeminist prejudices. An example of this was at the London Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840. The right of women to take part was debated bitterly‚ as international clergymen said‚ “equal status for women was contrary to the will of God” (Woman Suffrage 2017‚ Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). Eventually
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In my opinion agriculture played the largest role in the success of American business from the colonial period through the first half of the 19th century. From the very beginning farming held a crucial place in the American economy. This country started with 13 small independent farming economies which joined together in 1776 to form the United States. Without being able to be self-sustained these colonies would have never developed. Between 1860 and 1910‚ the number or farms in the United States
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The long nineteenth century brought about extensive challenges to the traditional societies of Asia‚ as Western European imperialist nations rapidly industrialized and expanded their global spheres of influence through imperialism and colonialism. The three players in this war of modernization: China‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ and Japan‚ were confronted with the paramount need to modernize and adapt to this new reality of Western dominance or risk being colonized themselves. While all three pursued programs
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In the nineteenth century‚ United States focused all its attention on the West. The Americans justified their expansion westward as a “God-given” right called Manifest destiny. This belief dictated the U.S Policy. Following the Civil War‚ the federal government pushed the Indians off their lands to areas reserved for them called reservations. In addition to changing their homes‚ the Native Americans were forced to change their lifestyle and traditional ways while living in the reservation. Indian
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Immigration in the U.S was a very prominent occurrence in the 19th century. However‚ this great wave started coming to an end by the beginning of the 1920s. Between the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th approximately 25 million people on American land were foreigners. Of that 25 million about 9 percent of them were Irish Immigrants (Over 7 million). Most of the foreign people from this time period‚ categorized as the New Immigrants‚ were young men looking for jobs to accrue enough money
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Immigration has been the primary way that the United States has grown since its founding as a nation. We can detect several key periods in which immigration has helped to shape its character. In the nineteenth century there were at least two critical periods of immigration. The first took place in the 1840s and 1850s when famines in Ireland drove hundreds of thousands of people to seek refuge in the United States. The Irish population of cities such as Boston and New York expanded enormously during
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Whether it is now in the 21st century or as early as the 19th century‚ there was a lot expected from women. Their main roles had always been carrying mothers for their children and loving wives for their husbands. However‚ where did this idea come from and how did it change throughout the years if they were expected to be goodwives? In a world of patriarchy‚ how did women find other roles besides domesticity? Women started with barely any rights in the colonial America but as decades went by‚ more
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