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    Relations between women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Theme: Relations between women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Thesis: Relationships between women in the nineteenth century America created a web of love and support for women. Mothers and daughters‚ sisters and friends from childhood formed emotional and sometimes physical bonds that lasted lifetimes. These ties were acknowledged and easily accepted in their societies. Many women survived unthinkable hardships such as geographical isolation

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    I believe that of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries‚ the most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the "scientific revolution." In the popular mind‚ we associate this revolution with natural science and technological change‚ but the scientific revolution was‚ in reality‚ a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself: systematic doubt‚ empirical and sensory verification‚ the abstraction of human knowledge

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    individuals gather around together to freely discuss and identify social problems in the society‚ and the conversation influences political action to take place. In colonial towns and cities‚ there was an expansion of the public sphere in the eighteenth century. This relates to the reception of the Stamp Act in British North America because in 1765 this act was imposed on the American colonies by the British government. The cause of the riot was the Stamp Act because it was a British tax that many colonists

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    The 18th century Enlightenment period was undeniably a historical viewpoint that advocated for greater decency in society. During its beginnings‚ many intellectuals referred as the “philosophes” emerged in France‚ and used the ideas of the Scientific Revolution to reconsider all aspects of society. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant defined the Enlightenment as “a man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity” (What Is Enlightenment?). Kant even proclaimed as the maxim of the Enlightenment: “Dare to

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    property instead of regular people. Planters relied of their slaves to grow tobacco. But once the servants had served their terms of indenture‚ they became free men and women‚ and were given fifty acres of land. Their indenture was usually seven years. The supply of indentured servants slowed down by the end of the seventeenth century‚ and planters slowly began to shift to slave labor. Virginia planters started to get involuntary slaves. They imported large numbers of African slaves. The majority of

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    ------------------------------------------------- The Scientific Revolution (1550-1700) ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- General Summary For the long centuries of the Middle Ages (500-1350 AD) the canon of scientific knowledge had experienced little change‚ and the Catholic Church had preserved acceptance of a system of beliefs based on the teachings of the ancient Greeks and Romans‚ which it had incorporated into religious

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    18th century is an era peculiarly identified with hair and makeup‚ these became such traits throughout the French Revolution. France and England were the fashion chiefs. In the 18th century only the courtesan or actress wore white powder and painted cheeks. The apothecary chemists would supply cosmetics and wigs beneath the counter. Men and women continued to lighten their faces and applied glaring pink rouge. This was applied heavily in circular or triangular shapes to the cheeks. The lips were

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    society were never invented. A history marking event called the Industrial Revolution began in England in the middle of the 18th century and spread to the rest of Europe and the United States in the early 19th century. This era changed the way people worked and lived in drastic ways. New machines were invented and a large part of the population moved from the countryside to urban areas. In the early 1800’s‚ the Industrial Revolution spread to the European mainland and across the Atlantic to the United

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    product and its components. Prior to the Industrial Revolution‚ manufacturing simply meant creating products or goods by hand. Most families worked from their farms or homes. The Industrial Revolution sparked major changes and brought inventions we still use today‚ including the sewing machine and light bulb. It laid the foundation and paved the way for the manufacturing industry we know today. Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution brought a change in the way goods were manufactured

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    Before the Scientific Revolution‚ the Bible or Greek philosophers such as Aristotle or as-tronomers like Claudius Ptolemy‚ whose ideas were sanctioned by the church‚ answered any questions regarding the natural world. In the bible it writes‚ "Mankind is the most important of God’s creations and occupies the centre of his universe." Astronomers there-fore stated that‚ "The earth is at the centre of the universe. The sun‚ the moon and the stars all move around the earth." During the scientific revolution

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