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    the hospital and prison reformers of the late 1700s. New training for nurses became available‚ notably at the Deaconess Institute at Kaiserworth in Germany (1836)‚ which influenced Florence Nightingale. Nightingale reorganised army hospital nursing during the Crimean War (1853-56)‚ while Jamaican healer Mary Seacole attended the wounded in the camps and set up her own nursing home. Florence Nightingale helped promote nursing as a more respectable profession for young women. The nursing role was seen

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    Labor in the 1800's

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    10-31-11 Labor in the Late 1800s Essay Laborers in the late 1800’s worked in harsh conditions. Many companies and corporations went on strike and even resorted to violence in order to spread their point. These workers mostly worked for low wages‚ or felt that they weren’t being treated fair. With acts of crime‚ these laborers felt that they could get there message to the companies‚ but most of the companies retaliated with hiring national guards to settle the issue or just locking the workers

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    Society of the 1800's

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    Society of the 1800’s During the 1800’s there were three prominent cultures that could be found within Antebellum or Pre-Civil War America. These cultures include the North‚ South‚ and the Southern Black or Slave culture. These societies differed in many ways‚ some to an extreme degree. The Northern culture is the closest to the modern day America that we know as it was the most progressive culture. The Southern culture was extremely elitist and intolerant of social reform not benefiting the slave

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    When you think about what has changed between now and the 1800’s there are endless possibilities to mention. Most of the time however these changes have been for the better. When you come across something that hasn’t changed much one can’t help but wonder why. The similarities between institutionalism now and in the 1800’s are eerily similar. “In the 1830’s jail was an all purpose solution for a lot of issues” (Campbell‚ 2014). Intentional or not I still feel like this is still the case. The

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    What were women’s prisons like before the 1800s? “Women were punished as men were‚ with the exception that pregnant women were often spared punishment until after they had given birth. Women were generally mixed with male prisoners and supervised by male jailers‚ which made the women doubly subject to abuse and exploitation.”(Foster‚ 2006) Women who violated the law‚ then‚ also violated their subservient position and were seen as morally suspect as well as criminal. Prior to the development

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    Stop Slavery In The 1800s

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    people were starting to decide that slavery was a terrible institution and needed to stop in America. There were multiple ideas on how to stop slavery and continuing through the 1800s the debates over slavery changed and became more widespread.     Congress was a big factor in altering the debates and nature of slavery in the 1800s. In 1808‚ Congress banned the importation of slaves into America. This restricted the growth of slavery‚ making it a lot harder for slave owners to get large amounts of slaves

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    since the 1800’s. As the 19th amendment was passed and technological advances were discovered‚ cranes‚ forklifts and other heavy duty machinery requiring strength‚ women slowly became more able to do all tasks that once only men could accomplish‚ women and men even began to wear the same types of clothes‚ thus the line between masculinity and femininity is gradually fading and nearly gone. gone.gLife in the 1800’s for a typical woman was filled with much adversity. During the early 1800’s women

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    Election Of 1800 Essay

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    would occur which would help shape and form the country we have today. Back then they were just figuring out how it works to run a country after becoming independent from the British Empire. One of these major events was the presidential election of 1800. This election was won by Thomas Jefferson who is one of the most iconic men in the history of the United States of America. The election and the process of him becoming president wasn’t smooth sailing though. The race for president was contested

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    investing in a failing flour company and made it into a profitable business. It became the 19th largest flour mill. The flour industry start in the 1800 and for 50 years. Minnesota was know as the “flour milling capital of the world”. Many immigrants worked for the flour industry because they got paid well. Next‚ what the flour industry was like in the late 1800s. Two dozen flour mills were made. Thousands of farmers planted wheat‚ for the flour.

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    Apush-Revolution of 1800

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    AP Essay Redo Kaleb Duncan The election of 1800 was considered the “Revolution of 1800” by Thomas Jefferson because it was a switch from previous Federalist rule‚ to Republican leadership. Economies and plans for them changed dramatically with the Republican Party in control‚ as well as politics at the time. In foreign policy‚ Jefferson got America involved in the Barbary Wars and the Embargo Act. Previous presidents had done what they could to stay neutral in foreign battles

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