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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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    As urban industrial workers expanded in the 19th century‚ industry and the industrial work force boomed as well. Workers ‚ however‚ were met with difficult situations that ultimately led to violent outbursts. Low wages could not buy food and clothes at the same time and conditions in the work place brought about countless deaths and injuries. Growing number of immigrants caused the reduction of wages and insecurity of the workers caused unemployment. There were hostilities between workers‚ employers

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    The second half of the 19th century introduced a new style of enterprise to America‚ Big Business. The 19th century values of work and of being an independent business man clashed with the modern 20th century values of extreme expansion with large work forces and of earning the most money possible. The rise of the robber barons and the captains of industry helped the economy by pushing America into first place in the production of several products and by creating many new jobs. Although these new

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    (13.1)In 1845‚ John O’Sullivan made credit for the phrase Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny is used to describe America’s 19th century. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 seen the U.S. Congress forcibly displace‚all Native Americans living in the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River. The 1838 Trail of Tears also saw the U.S. government forced the Cherokee nation to relocate from the East Coast to Oklahoma. Beginning in 1840‚ American settlers set out on the Oregon Trail‚ a wagon route starting

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    Immigration has always been a factor in America‚ the first people to land in America in as early as the 10th and 11th century were Immigrants. Immigration began building America especially in the 19th century when Immigrants from all over the world began to come to here for economic opportunities and religious freedom. These people were known as the ‘Old Immigrants”‚ the majority of these said immigrants were from Northern or Western Europe. They were the first mass wave of immigration to come to

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    THE WORLD AND THE PHILIPPINES IN RIZAL’S TIME 19th Century - Rizal was born and raised in a period of massive changes in Europe‚ Spain and the Philippines.  - During this era‚ the glory and power of Spain had waned in both in her colonies and the world.  - Social scientists marked this period as the birth of modern life as well as the birth of many nation states around the world. The birth of modernity was precipitated by three great revolutions around the world:   the Industrial Revolution in

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    In the 19th century‚ there were waves of immigration entering the US from all areas of the European countries that helped enrich America’s popular music culture. The immigrants all shared their experience‚ culture‚ and religion into the American stream of music. American popular music grew and spread across the US all throughout the 19th century. There were many events going on in the 19th century that has been correlated into new music. This paper will reflect on the different types of popular music

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    Social gospel was a movement that sprung up in the late 19th century and early 20th century in the United States in response to social conditions. During this time period‚ conditions of the industrial revolution and increased immigration led to terrible conditions for the poor (Foner‚ 2014). In urban areas‚ poor families were packed into small unsanitary tenements. City slums were filled with disease‚ over-crowding‚ and crime. Factory workers‚ who were often very young children‚ were forced to work

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    A Maturing Industrial Nation During the 19th century the United States faced its greatest economic revolution. Mainly‚ this industrial enhancement primarily a result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad‚ a transportation system that runs cross-country. Aside from impacting the economy‚ the railroad also affected the politics of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Since the political jobs were reserved for the upper class‚ investors in the railroad tended to have inflated bank accounts;

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    The treatments varied from primitive psychiatric forms of care from the 8th century in Islamic hospitals‚ according to Howells (1975) to a milieu therapy as archaic approach in Middle Ages. Until the 19th century ‚ there is no form of organised systematic care for people with mental illness‚ excepting charitable provision or public asylums. Rogers‚ A. & Pilgrim‚ D (2001)‚ points out the beginning of the 19th century

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