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    were undernourished. The African Slave Trade was really thriving in the 18th century. The African Slave Trade started dying down around the early 1800s. Only around 2 percent of Africans lived through the trade by being a slave. Others escaped or paid their way out. Most the slaves that escaped ran away during the night when the owners were sleeping. The trade actually ended around 1807 and 1808. The trade ended because of protesting and the Civil war. A lot of Africans died

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    By the late 1800s‚ countries in Europe had already started imperializing places around the world; such as many countries in Africa. America‚ now industrialized‚ decided that they were strong enough to do it as well. America had already achieved Manifest Destiny and they were ready to expand outward. It had gained its own expansionism and it was going to change the country forever. The competition for power and land would be one that America did not want to lose and it impacted the country in many

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    slavery‚ discrimination‚ and the right to vote‚ own property and earn a fair and equal wage. Women are entitled to all of these rights‚ yet across the world‚ some women and girls are denied these rights‚ simply because of their gender. Women in the 1800’s were expected to be submissive to

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    xtinct Political Parties of the 1800s The History of Political Parties Includes the Successful and the Doomed By Robert McNamara‚ About.com Guide See More About:political partieswhig partyknow-nothing partyfederalist party James G. Birney‚ Liberty Party Candidate in 1840 and 1844 Library of Congress Sponsored Links Is Your Bank Collapsing? Free list Of Banks Doomed To Fail. The Banks and Brokers X List. Free! www.MoneyAndMarkets.com ITT Technical Institute Attend Class in Corona‚ CA

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    human history that in many ways (higher standards of living‚ housing‚ population increase and so on) forever changed the lifestyles of millions of people. So far no one has figured out why the Industrial Revolution was delayed until around the 1800.Even though there are many different theories trying to solve the puzzle of the Industrial Revolution all of them face some problems and Gregory Clark tells us about the main theories and gives us his reasoning as to why explaining the Industrial

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    testing has been part of American history since the 1800’s. In Hot Topics Carla Mooney says‚ "In the United States school reforms Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe introduced standardized testing in Boston public schools in the mid - 1800s. The men designed the new tests to provide a standard to judge and compare the performance of each school and to gather objective information about the equality of teachers" ( Mooney 11-12).In the mid - 1800s Horace Mann and Samuel Gridley Howe brought standardized

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    Abolition of Slavery in America in the 1800’s Slavery is act in which a person or persons is sold‚ traded and forced to work against their will. The slaves are treated as property and not seen or viewed as people with human rights. Slavery was popular in England and the idea followed our settlers over seas and was incorporated into the American life. As time passed‚ some people began to see the inhumane side of slavery and wanted it to be completely abolished in the United States. Even 100+ years

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    The success in industrialization resulted into successfulness of agriculture such as plantation of cotton‚ sugar cane‚ lumber‚ tobacco‚ and rise. However‚ the differences in economic development between the Northern and Southern states in the early 1800’s affected into the argument regarding the size of the federal government and the developing of western land and foreshadowed the upcoming civil war by

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    Child Labor Have you heard of one of the causes of why children and adults died in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s? Child labor was terrible and needed to be stopped. In the 1800 and 1900’s‚ children were forced to work in factories in America. Child labor was hazardous and awful‚ and many actions were taken to improve working conditions and save the lives of children. In the 1800 and 1900’s‚ working conditions were deadly and cruel. First‚ many kids were working barefoot. They were barefoot

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    Although women have been able to access secondary and tertiary education since the 1800’s‚ there has never been such equality in education as there is today‚ with cases like Leves v. Haines 1986 ensuring that women have access to the same subjects and resources as their male counterparts. This equality has translated into larger numbers

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