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    Around the ending of the fifteenth century‚ Europeans who first settled in America brought longhorn cattle along with them. The population of cattle multiplied. By the early nineteenth century‚ more cattle ranches were common in places such as Mexico. Mexico was included to become Texas. Longhorn cattle were kept on open range and looked after by cowboys also referred to as vaqueros. In 1836‚ Texas became independent because Mexicans left with their cattle behind. Around that time beef was not popular

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    Child Labour In The 1800s

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    Child Labor in Great Britain stated in the late 18th century. The cotton mills owners would go out into the country and find children that were either very poor or orphans and have them come work for them in the factories. In instances children would begin working in these industry at the age of five or six and work long hours of the day basically more than half the day they would end of working in that job. In 1802 social reforms would start to begin to help these children be kids and have some

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    Just imagine your life working all day everyday.TO BEGIN WITH factories started to find a new source of labor to run their machines whitch was little CHILDEREN.A driven machine started to replace hand labor for making certain items. Then child labor started to be a major problem. CHILDEREN had terrible working conditions and low life expecting. FACTORIES system split up families for a lot of hours. Poverty children and families were poor barely ate food and moms and dads had to work also with the

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    When many Americans think of farm animals they think of pigs rolling in the mud outside‚ cattle grazing on green grass that goes on for miles‚ and chickens roaming about in front of a picturesque red barn. Over the past century‚ the way food animals are raised and fed has changed drastically. The rise of the factory farm industry altered the stereotypical idea of what farms look like and the treatment and health of the animals inside. Factory farming is an industrialized system of producing meat

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    The beginning of the consumerism can be traced back to the 1920’s after the end of World War I. This mainly occurred in the urban areas where a consumer conscious had developed‚ hand in hand‚ with the Industrial Era of mass production (Jacobs‚ 2011). The expansion of consumer conscious not only changed Americans but reformed the whole political scene. Researcher found that consumerism was often used to define a social class and to form an identity. Uniquely‚ the buying of goods was empowering to

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    Women in the 1800’s were very segregated from men compared to women today. Many of us don’t stop to think about all the hard work and bravery women put in for us to have the privileges we have in our modern society. The women in America During the late 1800s were treated unequally to men because they couldn’t vote‚ they had no job opportunities‚ and were controlled in marriage. Women were unable to vote; just men. Also‚ women weren’t allowed to choose laws. It’s unfair that men were the only ones

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    Slavery Without Submission

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    Slavery Without Submission‚ Emancipation Without Freedom” An argumentative review of chapter 9 Neal Ethan Nichols History 2010 Professor Harry Hays 4 April 8‚ 2013 In chapter 9 of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of The United States‚ Zinn analyzes‚ in details about the tough and troublesome living arrangements the slaves had to endure during the early 1800’s‚ the slave revolts that were started because of these living conditions

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    indentured servants into slavery. There were five major methods in justifying slavery. One of these methods was a biblical justification‚ referring to the story of an curse falling upon the son of Ham‚ on of Noah’s children. This story supports the ideal that servants were made to obey their masters. Another justification for servants from a historical term was that slavery existed in all great civilizations and built their nations. The legal justification for slavery was in the U.S. Constitution’s

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    By the mid 1800s‚ machines began to take over the industrial economy. More and more machines began to be used to produce clothing‚ shoes‚ watches‚ guns‚ and farming supplies. The working conditions in the factories in the mid 1800s on the other hand‚ was very harsh and dangerous. It was very easy to get caught in a machine‚ and get badly injured. The average workday for employees was 11.4 hours a day. Not only was the machines moving at a rapid pace‚ but children that had to work‚ would end up getting

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    12 Years Slavery

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    of slavery and its’ brutal personality. Unlike most other major countries during the 19th century‚ America still had not abolished slavery nationwide‚ and almost all slaves were blacks. Many different situations arose from slavery‚ after all it is what caused the civil war‚ but on a person to person level‚ slavery was full of negatives and contain very few‚ if any‚ positives. The film‚ 12 Years a Slave‚ portrays the life of Solomon Northup‚ a free black who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. 12

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