Advancement of the 19th Century The end of the nineteenth century brought about a huge change in the way the United States worked as a nation‚ making the United States the world’s most productive nation. The nation as a whole was advancing rapidly and new inventions were bringing about new ways of life. Due to the invention railroads and efficient machinery‚ there was a rise in big businesses which were looking to expand as much as possible. Initially‚ nearing the end of the nineteenth century‚ railroads
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Were you engaged with women’s rights in the nineteenth century? Or do you ever wonder what it was like to be a woman back in the days? The term women’s rights are rights and freedom that are set for women and girls of all kind. In which is now formed into women’s rights and the feminist movement which was around the 20th century. In some countries‚ these rights are supported by law‚ but in others‚ women’s rights are being ignored and they‚ are being oppressed on the regular basis. In the following
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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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The liberal/conservative divide in the 19th century was the cause of various differences among diverse aspects of Latin American countries of the era. These disputes can be easily viewed when observing the histories of Latin American countries such as Chile and Guatemala. Throughout the 19th century these Latin American countries experienced a constant power struggle between the two political ideologies. As one rises‚ another falls‚ and the latter seeks to regain the lost power. Liberals were characterized
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In the turn of the 19th century‚ a psychologist Herbert Spencer branched off the thought of Darwinism and promoted the evolutionary thought of social Darwinism which differed from the original idea of survival of the fittest (Goodwin‚ 1995). Social Darwinists believe in the idea that humans‚ like plants and animals‚ struggle for the existence of natural selection results in “survival of the fittest.” Spencer claimed that‚ evolution must be unchecked because of its natural and inevitable forces that
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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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physical culture would rise. The start of weightlifting originally was not for a person physical physique. This entertainment was to amaze crowds of people and to show off how strong he was. The point of these new strongmen was to practice who could outlift each component. In the 19th century‚ the body shape and muscles did not matter. In fact‚ it was usually better men with extended belly and fatty limbs that would the strongest out of any smaller man. Today in the 21st century‚ being symmetrical and
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The crises in public health of the 19th Century were a result of the urbanisation which occurred as a result of the industrial revolution. The epidemics brought a need for public approach to the prevention of disease. However this did not specifically set in motion the idea of a ‘national’ health service. The biggest obstacle towards this was the ideology of laissez-faire. In order to reach an establishment of a National Health Service‚ there needed to be a majority belief in universal entitlement
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In the early 19th century‚ hanging was the main punishment for serious crimes. Prisons served as lock-ups for debtors and places where the accused were kept before their trial. By the 1830s‚ many areas in Australia were refusing to be the ’dumping-ground’ for Britain’s criminals. The answer was to reform the police and to build more prisons: 90 prisons were built or added to between 1842 and 1877. By the mid Victorian Period‚ there were two distinct prison systems in England. There were the county
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