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    Religion is the foundation upon which our very nation was built upon. However‚ we have not always had the freedoms that we enjoy today. Our founding fathers couldn’t even serve the God of their choice or even have the freedom of speech. Even today we still have problems with freedom of religion. There have been many cases brought before the courts for infringement on religious freedoms such as Wisconsin vs. Yoder‚ Goldwater vs. Religious Rights‚ and Sherbert vs. Verner. In 1620‚ the Pilgrim

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    Child Labor In The 1800s

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    Child labor is the “full-time employment of children under a minimum legal age.” Child labor is an awful act that still happens around the world. However‚ in the United States child labor is mostly eradicated. It did not happen overnight but in fact took many years. There were many different laws and acts and committees that were created before there was no child labor. One of the earliest Child Labor Laws in the United States‚ was in Massachusetts. The act was passed in 1836 that regarded “the

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    The lives of textile workers in the Lowell Mills‚ not unlike most of the lives of mostly everyone else in America at the time‚ had many challenges. Textile workers were usually single women from age 10 to mid 40’s. The women would be sent to work at the mills to earn a little extra money for their family. Workers had to work very hard for the amount of money they were paid (anywhere from $2 to $6 per week). A textile worker would often begin work before day break and end long after sunset. This eventually

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    In the 1800s women’s rights changed tremendously. In the beginning of the 1800s women had no rights and were strictly housewives meant to raise children‚ and be strictly religious. Throughout the 1800s many changes took place within the roles and rights of women. Women during this time period were given chances for freedom. Women took advantage of these opportunities and changed their role in America. These changes applied on every level from women’s role in society‚ place of work and within the

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    Just imagine your life working all day everyday.TO BEGIN WITH factories started to find a new source of labor to run their machines whitch was little CHILDEREN.A driven machine started to replace hand labor for making certain items. Then child labor started to be a major problem. CHILDEREN had terrible working conditions and low life expecting. FACTORIES system split up families for a lot of hours. Poverty children and families were poor barely ate food and moms and dads had to work also with the

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    Slave Life In The 1800s

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    What did slave life “look like” when it expanded in the south after the introduction of the cotton gin? Why? There are many perspectives of slave live‚ from the young children to matured adults‚ Saltwater Africans had one thing in common which was heartache. The shipment of slaves coming from the upper to lower parts of the south was a domino reaction by the invention of a disarmingly simple machine that processed as much cotton in a single day as fifty slaves cleaned by hand‚ created by Eli Whitney

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    Women in the 1800’s were very segregated from men compared to women today. Many of us don’t stop to think about all the hard work and bravery women put in for us to have the privileges we have in our modern society. The women in America During the late 1800s were treated unequally to men because they couldn’t vote‚ they had no job opportunities‚ and were controlled in marriage. Women were unable to vote; just men. Also‚ women weren’t allowed to choose laws. It’s unfair that men were the only ones

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    By the mid 1800s‚ machines began to take over the industrial economy. More and more machines began to be used to produce clothing‚ shoes‚ watches‚ guns‚ and farming supplies. The working conditions in the factories in the mid 1800s on the other hand‚ was very harsh and dangerous. It was very easy to get caught in a machine‚ and get badly injured. The average workday for employees was 11.4 hours a day. Not only was the machines moving at a rapid pace‚ but children that had to work‚ would end up getting

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    Canada In The Late 1800's

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    the new land. With a prime minister who had great visions for his country and a world with people in need of a new place to live‚ the only thing standing between the success of the development of the west was a group of people in hopes of defending their rights and freedom. Western Canada expanded rapidly after confederation in the late 1800’s because of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway‚ the migration of new settlers in to the Prairies and the defeat of the Metis in Manitoba. I think

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    In the early 1800’s‚ the ideal woman was a sophisticated being. Intelligence‚ virtue and wittiness were all key character traits that every male would have fallen for in a female. However‚ this idea of the perfect woman has taken a huge leap backwards in modern society. Men have drastically changed their views on ‘what is hot and what is not’ in a female. Should men still be pursuing the ideal woman represented in the 1800’s? More importantly‚ does the contemporary mentality of the ideal woman yield

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