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    In the 19th century‚ there were waves of immigration entering the US from all areas of the European countries that helped enrich America’s popular music culture. The immigrants all shared their experience‚ culture‚ and religion into the American stream of music. American popular music grew and spread across the US all throughout the 19th century. There were many events going on in the 19th century that has been correlated into new music. This paper will reflect on the different types of popular music

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    many countries used slaves from the 17th to the 19th century‚ however‚ this nation was built upon from the hard work of slaves. The southern states were solely built upon this ideology and this would only end after the end of the American Civil War. Slavery was a practice that essentially moved the southern economy‚ there were only a small number of individuals who owned plantations‚ and owned slaves‚ while many were common people. By the 18th century‚ there were nearly 40‚000 slaves in the state

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    role could be shown to be socially constructed within a specific historical context‚ rather than natural and universal‚ then feminists would argue that it was open to change. Activists within the first organised women’s movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries found that women were largely absent from standard history texts and this inspired them to write their own histories. Detailed studies of women’s work‚ trade unionism and political activities were produced by authors such as Barbara

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    In the 19th century Australia was a migration hotspot for the world but mostly Europeans and Chinese immigrants. According to many reliable sources such as jacaranda plus similar and different challenges emerged for both groups including racial propaganda‚ culture and racial segregation. It is evident that although migration was a challenge for both groups‚ the racially driven white European attitudes made the gold field a setting of prejudice and exclusion. Racial propaganda was evident in the gold

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    the Medical Field during the 19th Century Keianna Fernandez Taft College Abstract Réne-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec invention is still used in medical practice today and his painstaking work provided correlation of sounds of the chest with pathological findings at autopsy‚ thus linking the signs of physical diagnosis at the bedside with organ pathology. Keywords: [Click here to add keywords.] The Technological Innovations in the Medical Field during the 19th Century It could be argued that the discovery

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    The Temperance Movement The temperance movement is a social movement that started in the early 19th century‚ with the objective of advocating for the reduction and prohibition of alcohol beverages usage. The movement was‚ by far‚ one of the most successful and largest reform movements of the early 1800s (McConnell 43). They promoted complete abstinence and criticized excessive use of alcohol. Prior to the initiation of this movement‚ there were several publications against drunkenness and excessive

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    Liberalism Liberalism can trace its origins back to the Age of the Enlightenment‚ and to figures like John Locke‚ Voltaire‚ Rousseau and‚ later‚ John Stuart Mill. It was a school of thought that emphasised individual liberty and happiness over outside interference. To the liberal‚ it was important that all individuals were allowed to live a happy life doing more or less as they pleased. Mill built on the ideas of Jeremy Bentham to create a school of thought called Utilitarianism‚ which stressed that

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    The three main factors of imperialism in the 19th century were economics‚ military/ technological advancements and cultural/social differences. After European countries became industrialized‚ they started to colonize countries in weaker continents like Asia and Africa. The industrial revolution combined with a sense of superiority greatly enabled the expansion of European dominance in countries that were less equipped to protect themselves. The economic differences in Europe and Africa caused imperialism

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    mental hospital the moment she began to open up. The treatment women has been completely disrespectful and degrading within that field. While women gained suffrage in the late 19th Century‚ it wasn’t until the late 1960s that women’s roles started being questioned on a larger basis. Throughout the first half of the 20th Century‚ women were expected to go straight into work after finishing school‚ and continue just that until they were married. (Text 8) This attitude towards women supported the belief

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    during the 19th century. The growth of industry‚ as well as the rapidly-advancing technology‚ made larger cities the ideal place to go to work. Factories had a insatiable need for cheap laborers and there were plenty of people willing to work for next to nothing for a shot at living in the land of opportunity. While the promise of work and a new life might sound appealing‚ the reality of life in America for the working class was nothing to be sought after. The 18th and early 19th century in America

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