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    Late 19th Century Artists always tried to rebel against the artistic traditions of the past. Before the 1800s‚ the arts all changed‚ but most of these changes still followed a common theme of expressing beauty. Art was not really ever political or representative of everyday common life. In the 19th century‚ all of that changed. The impressionists‚ realists‚ and post-impressionists all sought to change the course of art history. The realists specifically rebelled against traditions by representing

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    Baseball today‚ as a sport‚ is vastly different than it was in the late 19th century. Everything from the rules‚ leagues and even what days games could be played. Competition helped baseball make the shift from an amateur event‚ to a professional game. Baseball underwent drastic changes in the late 19th century while dealing with gambling‚ and anything to do with money. Money‚ it seemed‚ corrupted the sport of baseball. The development of baseball from an amateur to a professional sport was shaped

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    laissez-faire ideology. During the late 19th century many Americans advocated the fosterage of a laissez faire administration to allow for the insurance of property rights as well as the upkeep of social order. However‚ many Americans believed that the government did not have the right to obstruct with expansion and commerce. Although the United States continued to be passive for the most part in regard to regulating commerce‚ the United States government did hold up commerce through the bulky number

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    In the late 19th century the government reaction was one of Laissez Faire to poverty. Minimal intervention through the workhouse (expanded after the Poor Law Amendment act of 1834) where eligibility criteria was enclosed to try to scale down the worst excesses of poverty and squalor. People arrived at the realisation that poverty was due to social and economic factors outside the person’s control. Poverty had more or less vanished from the political radar in the early 1950s. However‚ came back into

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    armed forces. To this day it is unknown who threw the bomb and why they did it but this event was one that defined a period of rapid industrialization and great corruption in the United States. The conditions that defined this era in the history of still young country‚ where the graves still lay fresh from civil war and with the seams that were broken barley mended back together‚ would become the clamor of the nineteenth century. This riot was not just a random outbreak during a labor demonstration

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    Act of 1884 has stopped kids from working in dangerous factories under the ages of 14. Education was also rising for children‚ which was made mandatory in 1871‚ until grade 8. Similarly‚ the Significance of the Unions showed how others can form groups and speak up to oppression‚ making Canada a land of opportunity‚ even for the labour force‚ women’s rights institutions and many other unions formed within the early 19th century.

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    the United States. The white southerners did not take to this lightly. To maintain white supremacy in the south white southerners would make false accusations against Afro-Americans of rape‚ murder‚ burglary‚ etc. With the extra-legal laws still intact‚ by public opinion an enraged mob would lynch Afro-American that have been accused of a crime. This law was only exercised towards the Afro-American population of the south during the late 19th century‚ mainly towards Afro-Americans men‚ to maintain

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    The Populist Party was a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century. It flourished particularly among western farmers‚ based largely on its opposition to the gold standard. Although the party did not remain a lasting feature of the political landscape‚ many of its positions have become adopted over the course of the following decades. The very term "populist" has since become a generic term in U.S. politics for politics which appeals to the common person in opposition

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    characteristics of a city. It wasn’t until about thirty years after the civil war that America started seeing signs of urbanization. In the late nineteenth century‚ America started changing its lifestyle and started going from farming to city life. Cities started growing and more people started living in the cities. The Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th century gave people higher expectations to improve the way of living. Jobs along with technology and transportation increased. Cars and railroads

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    1. Introduction However‚ the first lunch boxes weren’t for kids at all. In the late 1800s‚ blue-collar workers carried their lunches to work in metal pails‚ which protected their food from the rigors of the workplace. In fact‚ your lunch pail illustrated your place on the economic scale -- a lunch pail meant you couldn’t afford a hot noontime meal. This didn’t stop children from wanting to emulate their working parents‚ however. Soon enough‚ kids fashioned their own lunch pails from tin boxes that

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