The Interstate Commerce Act was passed in 1887‚ beginning a shift towards federal rather than the state regulation of big business. After the Interstate Commerce Act‚ the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed. It was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress with the intention of controlling business and prohibiting trusts. The Sherman Act was the basis for the antitrust policies and laws created by the Progressive Party. During the Progressive Era‚ Congress created the Bureau of Corporations
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6. What were the major social problems facing the United States in the late nineteenth century? Explain to what extent the federal government attempted to address those problems. During the late nineteenth century‚ the United States was experiencing a lot of changes that soon would turn into problems. Immigration was being a big problem at the time as well as urbanization. The lack of jobs produced crime‚ poverty and housing were other big problems that the United states was facing at the time
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Patriarchy is defined as a society arranged to make sure that final social and political power disproportionality rests with males. Given the traditional gender roles set in America’s early nineteenth century patriarchy‚ both men and women’s attitudes towards sexuality and enforcement of gender norms were used to oppress women while valuing men‚ and slavery magnified the patriarchy’s worst aspects like sexual violence. The early nineteenth century for America symbolized nationalism and industrialization‚ but
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The early 1900’s and the era of the Great Depression were times of great changes and hardships. There were wars‚ the relocation of many people just to find work‚ and huge gaps and problems between social groups such as African Americans and Caucasians and the poor and rich. In John Steinbeck’s novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ an abundance of problems the characters face reflects real life situations. The story follows two men‚ Lennie and George‚ as they deal with the hardships presented to them. The many
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virtuoso began in the nineteenth-century with musicians such as Niccolò Paganini and Franz Liszt. Franz Liszt perfected the idea of the ideal nineteenth-century virtuoso performer. As a virtuosic pianist‚ he used his learned technicality and grandiose way of performing to amaze audiences with his professionalism on the piano. His exciting performances started a grand uproar that lead to the rise of an intense fan frenzy known as Lisztomania during the mid-nineteenth-century. One of Liszt’s most famous
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The insanity defense and legality of those who were deemed insane was an important question in the nineteenth century. The question of insanity was contested because it had become a medical question in an age of rampant science. The English court formulated the most important legal definition of insanity‚ the right-or-wrong test. The high court in England ruled a defendant could be deemed insane if and only if‚ while committing the crime‚ he was “laboring under such a defect of reason‚ from disease
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the 19th century Britain was transformed by the industrial revolution. In 1801‚ at the time of the first census‚ only about 20% of the population lived in towns. By 1851 the figure had risen to over 50%. By 1881 about two thirds of the population lived in towns. Furthermore in 1801 the majority of the population still worked in agriculture or related industries. Most goods were made by hand and very many craftsmen worked on their own with perhaps a labourer and an apprentice. By the late 19th century
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This paper will deal with the attitudes of the early nineteenth century toward women and their roles. The paper will examine these attitudes by utilizing primary sources such as newspapers and advice and housekeeping books and by comparing them to books written today on the topic of nineteenth century women. Many examples taken from period newspapers represent the opinion of historian Barbara Welter that attitudes of women were based on their possession of certain well?defined virtues. This paper
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Lastly‚ because of the theories and invention that were developed‚ it created many discoveries in diseases that were going around in the later nineteenth century. The first vaccine for anthrax was discovered by Louis Pasteur in 1881. Anthrax is a disease caused by bacteria the primarily affect livestock and can occasionally spread to humans‚ which can affect the skin‚ intestines‚ and lungs. Workers would get the disease from bacterial spores on hides‚ wool‚ and fabric fibers. Anthrax was mostly
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The 19th century was a time of rapid change and modernization of the world through quite possibly the most impactful economic movement in human history‚ the form of the Industrial Revolution. Coming out of the 18th century‚ which saw Enlightenment ideas flourish into actual Constitutions of rapidly rising nations‚ the 19th century saw the infant mortality rate drop rapidly and population growth boom due to findings such as the first vaccine‚ not using leeches to treat disease‚ as well as a variety
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