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    19th Century Tenements

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    multi-family dwelling in the urban core‚ usually old and occupied by the poor.” As New York became more and more crowded with immigrant’s tenements started popping up through the city. There was approximately more than 80‚000 tenements build by 19th century. It is said that they housed approximately 2.3 million immigrants. Tenements featured small cramped apartments with poor ventilation and lack of indoor plumbing. “A typical tenement building had five to seven stories and occupied nearly all

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    Women in the nineteenth century were often seen as the progenitors of family-life: they saw to a child’s education‚ well-being‚ and guided them through their first years of life; they were the ‘masters’ of their households‚ and were therefore seen as little else. Women‚ particularly wives‚ were not to venture outside of it nor question its limiting standards‚ nor was an education beyond the most basic of standards considered necessary. Friedrich Engels defined women’s role as that of a chattel in

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    Women in the 19th Century

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    A desire for Equality The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hosted uproar among the women of America who sought equal representation and rights from the U.S. government. Among the female activists‚ authors‚ such as Willa Cather and Louisa May Alcott‚ began to commence about women’s suffrage through their writing. A multitude of other women‚ such as Anne Sullivan‚ began to feel empowered to become independent and strong females‚ just as able and equal as men. Women faced an immense amount

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    Hysteria in the nineteenth century can be explained as a “social role that reflected gendered socialization in an American cultural context” (Marshall 711). Early cases of hysteria during this time were linked to an excess of emotions that interfered with the nervous system (Crimlisk

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    19th Century Suffragists

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    In the early part of the 19th century‚ the major suffragist movements were for the abolitionist and temperance movements‚ but women were unable to have the impact they could have due to antifeminist prejudices. An example of this was at the London Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840. The right of women to take part was debated bitterly‚ as international clergymen said‚ “equal status for women was contrary to the will of God” (Woman Suffrage 2017‚ Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). Eventually

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    After the civil war and then throughout the rest of the nineteenth century‚ became much larger‚ more industrialized‚ and became much more common. The new American city changed people’s lives and people continued to change the city. The most prominent factors that transformed places like New York‚ Boston‚ and Chicago were immigration‚ industrialization‚ and the expansion of the railway system. The Industrialization of cities in the mid to late 1800’s all started with the railroad system. Railroads

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    Trade Unions had struggled to achieve the freedom to exist in the early stages of the industrial revolution. Provide a critical account of their early developments‚ noting some of the major changes in their formation and character. A trade union can be described as an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas and working conditions. They were established around the early eighteenth century and membership was low and most were from within crafting industries

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    Labor in the Nineteenth Century 2. A. The Lowell Mills Strike of 1834 took place in Lowell‚ Massachusetts in 1834. The dominant work force in the Lowell Mills were young‚ rural‚ unmarried women. Working in the Lowell Mills was dangerous because the machinery could easily injure a young girl if she made a simple mistake. Also the women worked long hours with little pay. Despite these treacherous conditions there was sense of unity among the women who all came from similar backgrounds. In 1834

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    Whether it is now in the 21st century or as early as the 19th century‚ there was a lot expected from women. Their main roles had always been carrying mothers for their children and loving wives for their husbands. However‚ where did this idea come from and how did it change throughout the years if they were expected to be goodwives? In a world of patriarchy‚ how did women find other roles besides domesticity? Women started with barely any rights in the colonial America but as decades went by‚ more

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    19th Century Reform

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    As we progress through the 19th century‚ change is happening all around us. European countries are politically changing and reforming their laws and governments to make the people happy. In Great Britain‚ change has been happening slowly but they have remained stable. They are creating laws and reforms that are meant to benefit the people and make the government as fair and as just as possible. It has taken time to get there‚ and they have had some bumps along the way‚ but they are making steady

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