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    the turn of the century‚ numerous changes occurred in the United States‚ both positive and negative. These conflicts formed the modern America‚ and were crucial to the advancement of the nation. Without the events that took place in this time period‚ the country would not have advanced so greatly. They essentially shaped the nation into what it is today. With all of these major changes that happened many years ago‚ historians wonder; how did late 19th century and early 20th century conflicts shape

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    The nineteenth century is often regarded as being synonymous with sexual repression‚ this notion is not true‚ and during this era in American history many diverse views about sex and sexuality were developed. This paper will focus on the diverse ideas about sexuality and gender that were developed and what existing or developing ideologies led to these perspectives. The first idea that was developed about sexuality was Vernacular sexual culture; it acknowledges sex and desire as vital aspects of

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    Concern for the well-being of those suffering from mental illness gradually increased and was particularly embraced in the charitable social and political policy of the Victorians. County asylums were the recommendation of a House of Commons select committee‚ which had been set up in 1807 to enquire into the state of lunatic- Legislations in support of the establishment of asylums followed‚ including Wynn’s Act of 1808 for the better care and maintenance of lunatics‚ being paupers or criminals and

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    and become its own kind of state around the turn of 10th century‚ the need for a mechanism of enforcing its laws and punishing perpetrators becomes apparent. In Charlemagne’s empire this role was filled by the missi who sought out criminals and imposed fines; in modern America‚ it is the police and prison‚ respectively; and in the late Middle Ages‚ religious violations begin to be punished with excommunication. Excommunication resembles an early form of prison‚ in that it attempted to remove criminals

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    Europe‚ Peter reorganized the Russian army along modern lines and dreamed of making Russia a maritime power. He faced much opposition to these policies at home‚ but brutally suppressed any and all rebellions against his authority: Streltsy‚ Bashkirs‚ Astrakhan‚ and the greatest civil uprising of his reign‚ the Bulavin Rebellion.Widespread objections of his policies including a tax on beards and long robes‚ which not only implemented social modernization forcing people to shave and adopt

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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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    military administration‚ or the privilege to wed. 150 years prior‚ it was a considerably bigger segment of the populace’s turn: ladies. All through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth‚ ladies battled for equivalent rights under the law and in particular the privilege to vote. In both North America and Europe in the nineteenth century‚ ladies and men were relied upon to fill separate circles of society. Men were required to carry on with an open life‚ whether it was working in a processing plant

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    The nineteenth century was a time of expansion and progress. From the beginning to the end‚ there is a considerable amount of change that can be observed over this hundred years. The development of the century can be explained through industrialization‚ diversity of cultures‚ and public and technological advances. Industrialization Social When gold was discovered in 1848‚ people from all over the world flocked to it like ants (“Gold Discovered in California”). After gold‚ other precious metals

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    In the early part of the 1800’s‚ a new concept came to the surface of mostly every European nation: nationalism. With every foreign idea‚ a negative connotation arises due to the fear of change. However‚ throughout this period of history‚ nationalism opens the door to equality and individual rights and allows countries to move forward progressively. By the end of the century‚ a positive connotation engulfs the negative one‚ and the world is well on its way to being westernized‚ modernized‚ and industrialized

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    Immigration has been the primary way that the United States has grown since its founding as a nation. We can detect several key periods in which immigration has helped to shape its character. In the nineteenth century there were at least two critical periods of immigration. The first took place in the 1840s and 1850s when famines in Ireland drove hundreds of thousands of people to seek refuge in the United States. The Irish population of cities such as Boston and New York expanded enormously during

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