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    Year | Progressive Era Chapter 9 Timeline Name of Idea/Event/Law | What Law/Amendment didPurpose of Movement/Organization | 1860 | | | | | | 1870 | Women’s Christian Temperance Union | 1. First organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." - The purpose of the WCTU was to create a pure world by abstinence‚ purity and evangelical Christianity

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    Amendment. Although African Americans were gradually given freedom and citizenship by the government‚ they were not truly free and nor were they able to practice their rights due to discrimination in Southern America. Southerners wanted to remain antebellum order‚ so they suppressed African Americans’ rights. Therefore‚ the Civil War and Reconstruction were not totally revolutionary for African Americans’ status in society because they were still oppressed by society and the

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    States used to be like that‚ before the progressive era. Reformers had to push for new laws that are fair to all. It was led by the middle class. It also brought new changes and opportunities to the nation‚ leading to change in this era. The progressive era helped change big business‚ improved the lives of immigrants and took down unfair politics. Progressives helped improve the nation by improving big business. The American Nation in the Modern Era‚ talks about the new beliefs of big business owners

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    including women and children .These negative impacts on the United States led to the Progressive Era. “The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform across the United States from the 1890s to 1920s”. A group of reformers known as Progressives were working to improve society. I believe that the Progressive Era was good for America for several reasons. One way Progressive Era was beneficial

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    Narrative Chaining & Enhancement of Memory Introduction Memory is the ability to store and retrieve previously learnt information. Memory can be described using a variety of models. Two of these theories are Baddeley and Hitch model and Atkinson Shiffrin model. Both images are from Psychology VCE Units 3 & 4 – 4th Edition. The hypothesis is that narrative chaining will increase memory recall. Memory enhancing techniques (mnemonics) are acronyms and rhymes‚ acrostics‚ peg-word method‚

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    16th & 17th Century European Colonizing Efforts European Nation Geographical Range of Colonies Widest range of colonization‚ from the tip of South America to the current American southwest and throughout the Caribbean Sea. Emphasis/Focus of Colonies Early attempts at discovering rich Indian cities diminished by 1560 as Spanish sought to defend their colonies and pacify tribes through Franciscan missionary efforts. Portugal Brazil The Netherlands New York‚ Delaware

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    The first contact between Roman and Greco-Macedonian powers occurred during the Pyrrhic Wars in Italy in 291 B.C. when the Greek city states in southern Italy invited the Pyrrhus‚ King of Epirus and the greatest general of his age to help them resist Rome. At first successful‚ Rome eventually overcame Pyrrus‚ and absorbed the Greek cities into its growing empire. It was not until the second of the Punic Wars‚ however‚ that Hannibal made an alliance with Macedonia‚ and a Roman Army was sent into Macedonian

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    After the civil war the west continued to expand. The homestead act and transcontinental railroad led to the growth of towns and cities as well as farming and the cattle industry. Farmers faced problems and organized the farmers alliance the largest citizens movement of the nineteenth century farmers sought to remedy their situation‚ it was founded in texas in the late 1870’s‚ the alliance spread to forty-three stats by 1890. The alliance proposed that the federal government establish warehouses

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    How would you describe the consciousness of the Victorian Age? Think about their perception of their place in the world. The consciousness of society in the Victorian age is an interesting factor that greatly changed and evolved during the time period. The era’s beginning and end is marked by the birth and death of the reigning monarch of the time‚ Queen Victoria‚ spanning from 1837 to the early 1900s. With the effects of the Industrial Revolution distinctly felt by all classes within society‚

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    Historically‚women have been discrimintaed against and deemed subservient creatures as they were forced to monopolise private spheres. In the 14th and 17th centuries women who were mwntally ill were considered witches;trials were conducted to prove their heresy. The notion of insanity was replaced with the ideal that the mentally ill were wicked Satanist whom God shunned and aflicted with divine punishments.These ideals transcended generationsas wpmen in the Victorian Age were considered weak‚fragile

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