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    riches and thought of it as something to be glad for. The idea of freedom proclaimed by the "liberals" of the nineteenth century who held suppositions now called moderate depended on the idea that lone on the premise of

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    History of Consumption An epidemic that has greatly taken over without us even knowing about it‚ is still affecting lives daily and has many interesting details that have created such a unappreciated‚ self centered society‚ that has lead to compulsive spending. How did we get to such a fast growing economy that portrays us like animals fighting for a bone‚ with new products that trump the ones from the year before‚ from products that are brought over from China‚ Mexico‚ Taiwan. Brands are compared

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    19th Century Women Authors Some of the most influential women authors of all time lived in the 19th century. These women expressed their inner most thoughts and ideas through their writings. They helped to change society‚ perhaps without knowing it‚ through poetry‚ novels‚ and articles. Emily Dickinson‚ Harriet Jacobs‚ Kate Chopin‚ Louisa May Alcott‚ and Elizabeth Oakes Smith are the best-known controversial and expressive women authors of their time. On December 10‚ 1830 a poet was born

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    19th Century Slavery Problems During the Civil War‚ slaves were kept for work on farms to pick cotton and to blacksmith. Across the South‚ people argue that the Civil War was not about slavery‚ but about the state rights and “independence”. I disagree with the statement that the Civil War was about freeing slaves. Yes‚ slavery was a point of dispute‚ but the war was fought over state’s rights and the limits of federal power. The issue was not the fact that slavery was a thing‚ but who decided

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    Going all the way back to the 16th century ghettos have been used to forcibly segregate Jews. By the late 19th century‚ the same ghettos became less widespread until they reappeared with the purpose of controlling and making the slaughter of Jews easier to accomplish. It wasn’t until 1908 that the term “ghetto” took on a different

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    Agrarian Discontent and the 19th Century America‚ like any other nation‚ has always relied heavily on agriculture. Differing from other nations‚ however‚ is the problems that agriculture has created through America’s short history. It can be argued that the Civil War was started by agriculture; the South developed as an agricultural dependent region‚ while the North developed as a industrial region; creating two distinct‚ almost separate cultures. Some twenty years after the Civil War‚ new problems

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    Prison Reform in the 19th Century So‚ every time I re-read a source or try to write‚ I keep thinking back to what I am actually trying to argue. I’ve finally figured out my argument: Hawthorne portrayed Hollingsworth as a failure because he did not believe in the prison reform efforts of the time. I came to this through looking at a lot of parallels in my sources‚ and finding different reasons for why my hypothesis is true. The two types of prison reform in the early 1800s were meant to reform

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    The 19th century was a time of great scientific discoveries. Discoveries like germ theory‚ which helped us further understand how certain diseases are caused and how they can be prevented‚ and the invention of the telephone‚ which became the foundation for every day communication all over the world. The realizations made during this period of history have become an integral part of modern society and its comforts. With all that being said‚ most of the Western world is still rooted in bigotry and

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    As late as the 18th century‚ the Vatican Prison still served as a model prison design in Europe and America. Early settlers of North America brought with them the customs and common laws of England‚ including the pillory‚ the stocks and the whipping post. During the 18th century isolating offenders from fellow prisoners became the accepted correctional practice. It was thought that long-term isolation‚ combined with in-depth discussions with clergy‚ would lead inmates to repent or become “penitent”—sorry

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    American Imperialism is the idea of dominance economically‚ politically and culturally. It is the economic‚ military and cultural influence of the United States on other countries. The economic and political development of the new nation in the early 19th century intersected with racial formation and settler colonialism. The enslaved Blacks‚ Native Americans and women then resisted the hierarchies’ reproduce in the new nation. As the American Imperialism originated across the Mississippi‚ pioneer families

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