their trade or profession and came to stay in America. These immigrants were well equipped to take up life in the United States. The major first wave of Eastern European immigration took place during the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century before the World War I. Those who came were generally‚ Russian Jews fleeing
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In-Class Final Essay (Final Exam) World History Honors 12/18/09 19th Century Industrialization Industrialization economically and socially transformed an obsolete society. It brought a new system of trade and commerce‚ allowed individuals to gain affluence through aptitude rather than birth‚ and altered the cultural perception of family. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the late 1800s and subsequently spread through Europe and the United States. Britain had recently
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NINETEENTH CENTURY FINAL STUDY GUIDE 1 DOMINIQUE BUCHANAN Kirkpatrick Sale‚ “The First Industrial Revolution” Know how interactions between people changed during the Industrial Revolution. Know what was meant by the “moral economy.” Before the Industrial Revolution time was not thought of as a concept‚ many homes were self sufficient and people rewarded themselves with leisure time (“St. Monday‚” holidays‚ etc.) People worked in crafts that they could take pride in
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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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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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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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Wohl (1983) gave a well researched historical account of public health and development in Britain from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century. The devastating poverty and poor physical health of most of the population‚ lucidly described by the author‚ were horrendous. At the beginning of the Victorian period few people were free from disease‚ stench and impure water. The marked socioeconomic differences‚ intolerable living conditions and poor working conditions (although not a
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The Westward Expansion Impact As the 19th century progresses‚ more and more settlers arrived in the US and the yearn for open space and freedom had grown tremendously. The US had decided to push westwards due to this.Thousands of settlers began to pour into the new land. Through the exciting and promising land acquisitions‚ there was a dark history behind the westward expansion that was never fully acknowledged. Although America had enforced westwards expansion‚ it did not acknowledge the Native
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Question #2 pg. 25 The working conditions for women in the late 19th century were exhausting‚ unjust and unacceptable. The working conditions varied depending on the position that each woman held. The managers of these factories expected near perfection from the women in the workplace and they were heavily fined or severely punished for anything they did that the managers did not see fit such as eating‚ talking‚ or singing. The women that worked in the factories during this time period worked
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purchased in his dry goods store. He set the price for the fish he paid in the fall and charged for the goods that he sold in his store to the fishermen along with a markup. It made for a near feudal economic system existing in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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