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    The nineteenth century is an interesting time where immigration‚ a time where people from other countries come to a specific place‚ like America. There are a lot of unique things that benefit the country. Even though other countries brought certain items to many different places‚ these countries shared their culture with America because the individuals that live there wanted to share what they have with others. The Germans‚ Italians‚ and Irish made a difference by making contributions all over the

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    Political Machines In the 1800’s the process of industrialization began in the U.S. The creation of many new inventions and the economic structure of this era made this possible. This caused millions of people to migrate to the United States from different country’s in search of better paying jobs‚ and a better living standard. The excessive growth of people in city’s and the diversity between rich and poor in this society were the main benefactors to the rise of political machines. This

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    Farming during the early nineteenth century was very unlike today. For settlers who were interested‚ they had some options if they wanted to buy farm land. The families with the least amount of money could get land as squatters. They drastically changed the land into a valuable working farm and desired to purchase the land later on. Those settlers with limited means could examine the land and purchase a parcel from a government land office for a certain cost per acre. Most farm families raised various

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    Born: May 22‚ 1772 Died: September 27‚ 1833 Achievements: Founded Atmiya Sabha and Brahma Samaj. He played a key role in abolition‚ and Sati. He fought for the rights of women. Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the ’Maker of Modern India’. He was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj‚ one of the first Indian socio-religious reform movements. He played a major role in abolishing the role of Sati. Raja Rammohan Roy was a great scholar and an independent thinker. He advocated the study of English‚ Science

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    revolution‚ in particular the second wave that occurred in the late 1800’s. The revolution as a whole resulted in the change from economies based on agriculture and farming‚ to industry based profits. This second wave of the revolution not only refined and improved the prior inventions of iron and coal‚ but brought with it new highly developed technologies such as steel‚ electricity‚ oil and chemicals that lead to the creation of new industries that had not existed prior. The introduction of large

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    One of the most influential centuries during human history is the nineteenth century. During this century the world‚ especially Europe‚ experienced radical change--change that revolutionized the world‚ as everyone knew it to be. It was a century of war‚ of industrialization‚ of urbanization‚ and of nationalism. The major development of the nineteenth century was the Industrial Revolution. Every aspect of the nineteenth century is most likely directly influenced by the Industrial Revolution‚ from

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    Mortimer Chambers et al define imperialism as a European state ’s intervention in and continuing domination over a non-European territory. During the ’Scramble for Africa ’ in the late nineteenth century‚ the most powerful European nations desired to conquer‚ dominate and exploit African colonies with the hope of building an empire. According to Derrick Murphy‚ in 1875 only ten percent of Africa was occupied by European states. Twenty years later only ten percent remained unoccupied. There were

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    was the Impact of Political Machines on Society? In the late 18th and early 19th century‚ a massive growth in american cities need for a stable government caused the development of what is now called a political machine. The impact of political machines caused a negative influence politically and socially. Cities in the 19th century were defectively arranged in the public’s worst interest. The poor arrangement of government was in result of migration from rural areas (“Political Bosses”). The massive

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    intellectual spheres challenged the traditional place of evangelical Protestantism. Christian fundamentalism has been succinctly defined by George Marsden as “militantly anti-modernist Protestant evangelicalism.” In the latter part of the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th they developed specific beliefs and operating principles that set them apart from what was‚ in their view‚ dangerously liberal evangelical Protestantism. In a post-Darwinian world the Protestant worldview‚ particularly

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    during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Intellectuals in the eighteenth century formed liberalism‚ which the economic leaders during that time readily adopted for the sole reason that it would help them generate more money‚ as a reaction citizens formed conservatism. The existing social construct was being questioned by supporters of liberalism which led to supporters of the current social arrangement forming conservatism to counteract that. In the late nineteenth-century working class liberalists

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