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    has emerged due to western expansion and the emergence of Northern trade through new ways of transportation. Farmers began to grow for profit and not self sufficiency and many factories and cities began to flourish. New innovations like the steamboat and the canals opened reduced the cost of transportation‚ and made the sell of goods easier for economic enterprises. They helped farmers stay connected to the national market. The invention of the steamboat made possible upstream commerce as well

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    the severe differences between the rich and the poor due to industrialization‚ Thomas Jefferson believed that the United States of America should grow as an agrarian republic. He viewed that the future of America lay in the hands of the common yeoman farmer. "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." Knowing that industrialization would lead to extremes in poverty and wealth‚ Jefferson worked on ways to expand agriculture. One thing that the Americans had that most European

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    Analysis of Characterization in "The Darkness Out There Analysis of Characterization in "The Darkness Out There" ‘The Darkness Out There’ and ‘The Withered Arm’ are both short stories. The characterization techniques they use are contrasting and similar. Each story is from a different time; ‘The Withered Arm’ being 19th century and ‘The Darkness Out There’ being 20th century. Thomas Hardy writes ‘The Withered Arm’ as a 3rd person narrative whereas Penelope Lively uses a mixture between 3rd and

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    traveler depends on the ideal of a stationary‚ independent yeoman‚” and this yeoman perspective shapes his view of the South. In the preface‚ Olmsted claims to be writing from an impartial perspective‚ but it is clear that this Yeoman perspective pervades his piece. The most obvious example is that Olmsted writes under the pseudonym “Yeoman.” There is nothing subtle about this and it cannot be ignored. More evidence of Olmsted’s yeoman bias can be seen when Olmsted attributes the impressive organization

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    everyone should be able to  rule.  Believed in a rotation  for offices.  How were candidates for  Groups of the elite class  Nominating conventions made  president chosen?  gathered to nominate  nominations.  candidates.  Economic  Saw the yeoman farmer as the Saw farmers and laborers as  In what way did Jackson  chosen class.  the chosen class.  expand the concept of the  “chosen class”  How did each man view  Thought that industrialization  Recognized that it was  industrialize?  would lead to a too powerful 

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    nonslaveholders were of lower social rank‚ planters (those who owned at least twenty slaves) tended to live in plantation areas of “cotton belt” (stretched from Georgia to Alabama‚ Mississippi‚ Louisiana‚ and Texas‚ also low country of South Carolina)‚ yeoman farmers lived in upcountry and frontier areas and owned few or no slaves; in 1860 only 25% of whites belonged to families owning slaves‚ minority of whites were slaveholders on eave of Civil War (40%); planters minority of minority‚ 4% of total white

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    Owning a slave was accepted in the South. Not all southerners had slaves‚ but most wanted to keep slavery do to the Social Ladder. The social ladder consists of five steps. The first step had Planters‚ Bankers‚ Lawyers; the second step had Yeoman farmers; the third step had poor whites; the fourth step had freed blacks; the fifth had black slaves. Slavery gave poor whites a high step in the

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    BEEFEATERS Hey everyone! Today I am going to talk about Beefeaters. Yeoman Warders are members of the Sovereign’s Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary‚ popularly known as the Beefeaters are the guardians of the Tower of London. NAME The origin of the name "Beefeater" is not clear‚ but some historians believe it is because they received beef as part of their wages. It probably dates back to the time when Yeoman Warders were given a daily ration of meat for the 30 men: 24 pounds of beef

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    end. Firstly‚ the summoner shows his deceitful nature when he first meets his prospective victim‚ the yeoman/ the bailiff. As he set off to catch a prey‚ he finds “A poor old fiddle of the widow-tribe From whom‚ on a feigned charge‚ he hoped for a bribe Now as he rode it happened that he saw A gay young yeoman under a leafy shaw”(313). The summoner introduced himself as a bailiff‚ to the yeoman concealing

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    change the ways that food was produced. Food production went from a very labor intensive profession to a mostly mechanised industry. Horses were replaced by tractors and farmers planted huge monoculture fields to produce more for sale‚ and less for the family. The yeoman farmer gradually faded out as the large scale industrial farmers became essential to increased food production. Furthermore‚ people began eating foods from outside of their local

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