Physical activity In the early part of the nineteenth century‚ it was believed that physical activity was dangerous and inappropriate for girls. Girls were taught to reserve their delicate health for the express purpose of birthing healthy children. Furthermore‚ the physiological difference between the sexes helped to reinforce the societal inequality. An anonymous female writer was able to contend that women were not intended to fill male roles‚ because "women are‚ as a rule‚ physically smaller
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In the nineteenth century European and American women lived in an age personalize by gender inequality. At the beginning of the century‚ women were not involved in social‚ political‚ or governmental rights they could not sue or be sued‚ could not vote‚ could not give evidence as a witness in the court‚ had extremely limited control over personal property after marriage‚ were not granted legal custody of their children in cases of divorce‚ and were interdicts from institutions of higher education
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The Jeffersonian Democracy was a movement in the first decade of the nineteenth century led by Thomas Jefferson‚ and they felt that the people made the best choices in choosing a leader with the greatest abilities (Dictionary.com‚ n.d.). Thomas Jefferson‚ a democratic- republican‚ took a different political stance than his Federalist counterparts. He felt that it was ideal to deal with the citizens directly‚ which quickly made him popular. The Jefferson democratic-republicans created newspapers
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In the middle of the 19th century‚ after the Reconstruction‚ rapid industrialization paved way to a huge increase of immigrants searching for job opportunities and freedom in the United States. From 1880-1925 these immigrants kept coming into the United States causing issues between them and the Americans‚ and with the government. Americans felt threatened and resented these New Immigrants for being different in culture and physical aspects‚ and for "stealing" their job opportunities‚ which in the
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In the nineteenth century women were not allowed to vote‚ and it was assumed that they did not need to vote because their husbands would take responsibility for them in essential political matters‚ and it was presumed their vote would be unnecessary as they would only vote for the same political party anyway. Even the Reform Act of 1832‚ which was supposed to increase the electorate to include a larger percentage of the citizens of the United Kingdom‚ failed to include women‚ something which antagonised
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number of significant social transformations within the 20th Century. One might highlight the struggle for suffrage‚ the deterioration of the class structure or the way in which marriage and domestic relationships are viewed. I have chosen to explore the social transformation which occurred as a result of post-WWII immigration. In particular‚ I shall assess the effects of Caribbean immigration as large numbers of the first post war immigrants arrived from this part of the world. New arrivals faced colour
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The role of the railroads in the American economy in the late nineteenth century. Before the civil war and well into the industrial age all but a few manufacturers operated on a small scale and mainly for nearby markets. The American economy had no need for mass marketing and large-scale enterprises. Most goods were moved by water‚ a mode of transportation quite adequate at the time. With the arrival of the locomotive from Britain in the 1830’s that was certain to change. With a population swell
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in the eleventh century and began the Turkish rule. By the sixteenth century‚ Armenia had become one of the many nations absorbed into the growing Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans established a large empire that spanned from Eastern Europe to Western Asia and North Africa‚ but to govern this vast nation
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documenting in the sixteenth century. This style of dance was common and popular throughout the continent of Europe. The idea of square dancing was brought in the United States during the time when Europeans started to move and colonize to the thirteen colonies. The colonists that came from Europe brought along and carried their traditional folk dances with them. These traditional dances eventually spread through the United States of America. The dances brought from Europe were modified as it become more
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Nineteenth century English literature is remarkable both for high artistic achievement and for variety. The greatest literary movement of its earlier period was that of romanticism. It was born in the atmosphere of the violent economic and political turmoil that marked the last decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century. The outburst of political activity brought on by the Great French Revolution of 1789‚ the bitter wars with Napoleon’s France that ravaged Europe for almost 25
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