As the 19 century ended and the 20th began‚ the American wave of women pushing for access to the ballot box gathered momentum. As astonishing as it was many women were against the right to vote. These women were referred to in many ways: “anti-suffragettes‚” “anti-suffragists‚” “remonstrates‚” “governmentalists‚” “antis‚” and “naysayers.” Anti-suffragists leaders were not average American women but were women of the higher‚ privileged‚ class. These women were already doing well in society and had
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Since the fifteenth century when the first Anglo-American explorers came to explore the New World with all its land‚ riches and resources‚ settlers have struggled with peacefully cohabiting with the Native American people who inhabited these lands long before Christopher Columbus had even sailed the ocean blue. Native Americans helped settlers when they first arrived; teaching them how to grow crops‚ weave baskets‚ and make shelter. But tensions quickly rose as settlers became greedy for land and
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common thing that is happening in the world today is sexual harassment. Women are helpless when it comes to men abusing them. Most women today are giving major attitude to having more power. The women’s rights movement rose during the nineteenth century in Europe and America in response to great inequalities between the legal statuses
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about forty years into the Scramble of Africa‚ Great Britain had dominated majority of the African continent‚ starting from areas of Egypt to South Africa‚ as well as Nigeria to the Gold Coast‚ and so on. Thesis The Scramble for Africa in the late 19th century consisted of several African reactions‚ these of which consisted of violent resistance‚ as seen in documents 4‚ 5‚ 8‚and 9‚ nonviolent resistance‚ as seen in documents 2‚ 6‚ and 7‚ and diplomacy with the Europeans‚ as seen in documents 1‚ 2‚ and
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The eighteenth century was an era in which cultural and intellectual forces‚ as well as reason and analysis were extremely important and emphasized throughout everyday life. It was encouraged by philosophers to challenge powerful authorities‚ authorities like the Catholic Church. Famous texts such as the "Encyclopedie‚" The Social Contract‚" and "Wealth Of Nations" all helped and were revolutionary in spreading the ideals of the Enlightenment. Religion in the Enlightenment period was enormous. Critical
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In the early 19th century‚ the slave community‚ in south of America‚ was distributed into large and small plantation areas‚ on which slaves had work from sunrise to midnight in avoidance of beating. However‚ the Northerners sympathized the harsh condition of slaves‚ and fought against their own to abolish the expansion of slavery. In the south‚ the workers within a slave community worked based on either the task system or gang system. Plantation management not only exploited and humiliated the slaves
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Music was institutionalized in Europe during the 19th Century. Composing followed a scholarly route that lead to very subtle variation in classical music. Cultures outside of Europe produced music in their own unique style that differed from the usual European composition. Western composers began to incorporate music from other cultures to portray nonnative aspects of European society or bring new life into European Music. Ralph Locke’s spectrum of exoticism classifies compositions based on whether
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In the 19th century a revolutionary concept was introduced to the world: civil disobedience. It was the concept that people could disobey laws and accept their consequences to protest in peace. It may sound counter-intuitive‚ but it drew attention to some of the greatest plights in human history: civil rights for African Americans‚ Indian oppression by the British Empire‚ South African apartheid‚ among many other events. Each of them succeeded in changing the world by fighting with their words‚ their
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In the 19th century‚ the industrial revolution changed the United States and Western Europe. It led to power-driven machines in the textile industry. This came with the expansion of commercial farming areas to provide raw materials‚ increased wage labor and rapid urbanization. It also changed family life by decreasing family size because were involved in labor force. New England textile firms employed many people including children. Southern New England mills depended on single rural women who came
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other‚ telling me that the old Swiss men‚ the cultural norm of the small California town where he was raised‚ would not even nod to him until after he had returned from active military duty overseas. That cultural pattern saw its origin in the late 19th century where “ethnic identities proved to be a part of ... (white European foreign immigrants) self-identity and affected the way that they related to others.” The data presented in the reading reflects a rise in the white population and a corresponding
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