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    the four most famous ones all took place in a 35 years period at the beginning of the 19th century‚ and they all struck the terror into the hearts of white all across American south‚ showing that the revolts were not just suicidal‚ but also a threat to loved ones‚ and all slaves. Moreover‚ all the participants of the uprisings would always end up being executed‚ there is no absolution or forgiveness.

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    From the start of 20th Century to the early 21st Century‚ Australia has gone from a European centric nation to a multicultural superpower. With the introduction of many different ethnicities and cultures throughout the years‚ not only have our values‚ attitudes and beliefs evolved to accommodate the amount of variety‚ but many other things have evolved too. One of the most important things to have been brought to the country of Australia is the wide variety of different cultural foods and cuisines

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    look to all the tired women heading back to the women’s dorm‚ you decide to join them as you need all the rest you can get. Women are always thought of as weaker both in mentality and physicality. The industrial age‚ in America around the early 19th century‚ was a new found way for the rich to make money. The rich founded the factory system and exploited women and children to make tremendous profits. Discrimination of the sexes caused women

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    Slavery has been around for millennia and had been a plague on the mankind for far too many years until the 19th century. The 19th century was a time of great change politically‚ economically‚ and socially‚ and included the abolition of slavery. The problem with analyzing the abolition of slavery in all of the nations that did at this time is that each is so unique that it is difficult to accurately compare and contrast them because they all had different linguistic‚ cultural‚ and ethnic differences

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    paid in the fall and charged for the goods that he sold in his store to the fishermen along with a markup. It made for a near feudal economic system existing in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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    History of Health Care Health Care in the United States is different than most of the first world countries. America’s healthcare first began towards the end of the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution brought more jobs to the United States; however‚ the dangerous levels of those jobs led to more injuries. As jobs began to increase‚ the unions grew stronger causing the unions to provide forms of sickness protection

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    During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s most of the immigrants that came into America were poor peasants in search of a safety‚ freedom‚ and a better future than their home country could offer. However‚ during the first two waves of Eastern European immigration‚ the people coming to the United States were neither poor‚ nor peasants. Those who came were of the middle class with some money‚ experience in their trade or profession and came to stay in America. These immigrants were well equipped to take

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    19th Century Women Authors Some of the most influential women authors of all time lived in the 19th century. These women expressed their inner most thoughts and ideas through their writings. They helped to change society‚ perhaps without knowing it‚ through poetry‚ novels‚ and articles. Emily Dickinson‚ Harriet Jacobs‚ Kate Chopin‚ Louisa May Alcott‚ and Elizabeth Oakes Smith are the best-known controversial and expressive women authors of their time. On December 10‚ 1830 a poet was born

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    corruption thrived as political bosses ran the city for their own personal gain and power. It appeared as if the nation was modernizing too fast because they were unable to deal with problems of urbanization. The changes in urban America in the late nineteenth century therefore are viewed to be mostly negative. The rapid increase of urbanization was partly due to the number of immigrants that flooded America. People from rural America also migrated to the cities during this period. They gave up farms to

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    and goes through bouts of excitement‚ and then recedes. It was heavily prominent in ages past‚ and starting in the 1900’s‚ issues started getting addressed. Even today‚ there are issues which appear to still affect roles and views of people. A difference between today’s issues and the ones from the 19th century is that at least today women have rights as citizens. 19th century England enforced debilitating gender roles on women which prevented them from being considered “real” citizens in society

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