I: Reviewing the Chapter Checklist of Learning Objectives After mastering this chapter‚ you should be able to 1. explain why the United States suddenly abandoned its isolationism and turned outward at the end of the nineteenth century. 2. indicate how the Venezuelan and Hawaiian affairs expressed the new American assertiveness as well as American ambivalence about foreign involvements. 3. describe how America became involved with Cuba and explain why a reluctant President
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In the nineteenth century a series of innovations in transportation and economic expansion transformed our economy from an agricultural standpoint to one now mainly focused on new methods of production and having an endless commercial ambition. Previously most american families would produce what they needed at home for subsistence and sold anything left over to local stores but‚ now our country has slowly shifted to an industrial economy where a bountiful of economic opportunities for the “common
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1. Why did the nineteenth-century southern economy remain primarily agricultural? (pp. 330-36) Slaves made it possible for the people in the southern warm climate areas to make a profitable living off the land. Plantation owners were able to maintain the slave labor‚ which kept their costs down. Planters kept investing in cotton and slaves. The cotton grown by the planters in the south was the largest exporting crop at the time. The planters were getting rich off of their cotton crops. Having slave
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The plight of a homeless woman and a child in London during the mid 1870’s. The abject of misery was the results due to unfortunate circumstances and by accident. Many women abandoned by their husbands‚ some widowed‚ some with or without children. The predicament of poverty‚ misery stricken women in the 1887‚ usually older women‚ reduced to the plight of natural consequence. Begging was usually constituted food‚ bread‚ tea‚ this was their principle items to survive. Money was not easy to come
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The United States remained a nation of immigrants during the nineteenth century. Throughout the nineteenth century‚ land and jobs in America were plentiful. The United States still had remained a strong magnet for immigrants‚ offering them chances o take up farming or urban employment. Glowing reports from early arrivals who made good reinforced romantic views of American opportunity and freedom. A German immigrant in Missouri applauded America’s "absence of overbearing soldiers‚ haughty clergymen
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B. Anthony who realized that they too were oppressed. Maybe not in the same way as blacks‚ but lacking rights all the same. Women have been fighting for their rights for well over one hundred and fifty years‚ and whether it was in the nineteenth century or the twentieth the fight has always been for equality. Beginning with the Seneca Falls Convention in July of 1848‚ a key moment in the women’s movement‚ women have been hard at work trying to rally the troops in support of women’s rights. Elizabeth
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affection never was wasted‚” he expressed a romantic ideal ever-present in nineteenth century poetry: the ideal that naive romantic love should be valued above all else. This ideal has persisted to the present‚ ‚ presenting itself in innumerable pop songs and romantic comedies; working itself so deeply into the psychology of Western culture that those unaffected may consider it a cult. In the nineteenth century‚ this romanticising of young love was often imbued with a languid‚ yearning quality; and
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throughout Europe from 1346 to 1353. It is estimated to have killed about 1/3 of the European population. During this time period‚ the chances of surviving were very slim. The bubonic plague was the largest and most destructive plague of the 14th century. The plague first arrived in Europe by sea in October of 1347 by Italian merchants who docked their ships at the Sicilian port of Messina. Most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead and those who were alive were gravely ill. They were unable to
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immigrants-fearful‚ submissive‚ and confused. Presenting the readers with the horrific tenement settings that the laborers were forced to live in makes the readers empathize with them. The tenement was a large building in which thousands of immigrants were housed in after they arrived to America. They lived a major part of their life under miserable conditions. Di Donato portrays the declining quality of life through accounts of tenement living laborer. One example that very accurately and vividly displays the
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During the late nineteenth century‚ the U.S. went through an amazing increase in industrial growth. Many things were brought up that could help anyone‚ even the immigrants‚ to come to america to have a better life. As things settled it wasn’t as everyone wish or hoped it would be. It was not a healthy environment and things were not as stabled as they should’ve been. Some factors that had a negative effect on society includes‚ working conditions‚ child labor and unstable homes. Due to these conditions
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