In the 1800s‚ the United States was becoming an industrial country and discovering the country around them. Immigrants and citizens were moving west. Inventors were creating new‚ easier‚ and more logical ways of doing things. With all the expansion going on‚ there needed to be a way for people to get around faster and transport goods. President Lincoln approved a request to build the idea of a railroad. A machine that could transport people from one side of the country to the other. A journey
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Chris Camacho 4th Period APUSH 12/12/12 Fruitless Unions from 1875 - 1900 Late 19th century America was a time of both industrial prosperity and poverty among workers. It was run by grasping corporations and proprietors. Workers found themselves alone‚ amidst the rest of the nation‚ merely individuals under the control of the lavish Rockefellers and Carnegies. Entire families found themselves working 10 hours a day‚ 7 days a week in unsanitary conditions just to have enough money to pay for
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The growth of sports in Europe happened for varied values which the games held. People perceived different roles for the sports. Some believed that sports honed cooperation‚ while others valued the competition between nations which sports instilled. Still others valued the personal strength which performance created. The growth of sports‚ as shown by document 2‚ created different issues of worry and brought sports to an international foreground. As sports its fan base spread and created a new
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government was the Italian economic situation. The north of Italy was going through an industrial revolution‚ with many new factories and railways opening up. This however was not matched in the south‚ were wealthy landowners still held control over much of the countryside and over the peasants that lived there. Due to this imbalance of wealth many Italians left southern Italy to make new lives in America. The economic divisions were only exacerbated by the fact many Italians spoke regional
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Essay Draft The Tokugawa period‚ also known as the Edo period or the Shogunate Era‚ lasted from 1603 – 1867 and was the final period of traditional Japan. During this time‚ Japan was peaceful and politically stable‚ with much economic growth while under the shogunate‚ military dictatorship. The Tokugawa period was founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu and was a period in which the Japanese culture was greatly formed (Britannica‚ 2018). The Japanese culture was greatly sculpted from international relationships
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Industrial revolution was during the 1820-1870. The Industrial Revolution first occurred in Great Britain and Europe‚ it then centered on the United States and Germany. The Industrial Revolution went from hand and home production to machine and factory. The first invention was of the spinning and weaving machines which were powered by water and then eventually steam. It helped increase America’s growth significantly. The Industrial Revolution changed America in so many ways like their society and
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Advertising during the Industrial Revolution was one major aspect that influenced America. The “Nabisco” company for example‚ produced their biscuits in a new sealed package. Nabisco’s firsts ads featured a young boy wearing a rain jacket carrying a box of waterproof packaged biscuits through the rain. Consumer foods and products became popular making business grow larger. Aaron Montgomery Ward’s catalogue business influenced Richard W. Sears to increase the number of pages the Sears Roebuck originally
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took part in this and attempted to force the wives of his Cabinet members to accept her‚ but the Cabinet members mostly leave. John Eaton was a U.S Senator at a young age and the Secretary of War from 1829 to 1831 during Andrew Jackson’s Presidency.
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The Industrial Revolution changed existing contours of work in the early 19th century by altered the economy and society through the intertwined development of new machines‚ power sources‚ production processes and methods of work organisation ( Volti pg. 77). Under the old economy mode‚ people used to work as a small group‚ most of their products were handmade with simple tools and traditional techniques‚ required more artificial resource involved. Since the new economy system‚ worker has started
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alternatives‚ with choices that must be made. The role of the American working woman has changed drastically since the beginning of the century because of certain factors causing an increase in the number of women in the workforce‚ because of the rising cost of living‚ and because of the education now offered to women. During the early 1900’s‚ very few women worked in any particular industry. Most were running households and raising children while unmarried women were relegated to the secretarial pool
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