During the 19th century‚ the northern states were industrially and commercial advanced compared to the southern states. They had dense cities‚ developed technology‚ and steam powered factories. Most northern cities housed free blacks that could have owned a thriving and successful business‚ but racism was common and interracial marriage was illegal. The Southern states were more agricultural and rural than the northern states. Southern landholders had black slaves work the land. Even though the north
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without the other. A country is always going to have sectionalist ideals‚ such as two states having separate ideas on a particular topic‚ but nationalistic policies in the government‚ and within the people‚ ultimately control sectionalist principals. “Throughout the world no country has showed such striking outward evidences of national growth and national self-consciousness as did the United States during the first half of the 19th century.” (Manning 2010‚ 67) If a country is together as a whole‚ both
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WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE CLASS IN THE 19TH CENTURY The nineteenth century for Europe and America has been called the "century of the middle class." Growth in both power and prestige of the middle class was perhaps the most important single development in social and economic history. Prior to the nineteenth century‚ there was a recognizable middle class‚ but it was not large. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution‚ new wealth was created‚ and concomitantly the middle class became the harbingers
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Treated like scum rather than people‚ Europeans in the nineteenth century faced a multitude of daily struggles including starvation and homelessness due to a lack of money. Some people attempted to make a difference by giving hands-on help‚ while others used personal stories to explain the corrupt world of poverty. Three important figures during this time were William Booth‚ Henry Mayhew‚ and Jeanne Bouvier. While Booth and his wife worked to rescue those suffering from poverty‚ Mayhew and Bouvier
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WOMEN ’S STATUS IN MID 19TH-CENTURY ENGLAND A BRIEF OVERVIEW by Helena Wojtczak It takes a considerable leap of the imagination for a woman of the 21st century to realise what her life would have been like had she been born 150 years ago. We take for granted nowadays that almost any woman can have a career if she applies herself. We take for granted that women can choose whether or not to marry‚ and whether or not to have children‚ and how many‚ Women of the mid-19th century had no such choices
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Britain. Little did they know‚ the South would recreate such an event 90 years later when it would secede from the Union. This act of secession would spark the Civil War‚ which claimed “more than half a million lives and a million wounded.” In the 19th century‚ a majority of the population started to reflect on itself‚ in particular‚ its practices and customs. This introspection resulted from demographic pressures caused by technological advancement‚ unfavorable legislation‚ modernized thoughts‚ and
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Austin Storhaug AP American History 2/7/2005 19th Century Cities In 1880‚ a national census determined that the United States had grown to a population of 50‚100‚000. 6‚600‚000 of those who helped account for the population growth of cities were immigrants arriving from around the world. Also‚ many rural Americans became attracted to the lure of the big city. This incredible condensation into the big cities led to many problems including crime. Overall‚ the lure of the city‚ the abundance of
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September 2010 Democratization in Mid-19th Century America Democracy in the United States became prominent in the early to mid-19th century. Andrew Jackson‚ the 7th President of the United States‚ was inaugurated in 1829 and was best known as the pioneer who mainstreamed democracy in America. While market economy grew in the early 1800s‚ by 1820 U.S‚ “political life grew more democratic than ever before” (Schaller et al.377). Democratization spread political power to a new class of individuals
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musical life of the 19th century. Due: 4 October 2012 The 19th century was an era of change. There were lots of progression in technology‚ science‚ and philosophy that gradually turned European society away from the past centuries. Women’s status in the 19th century Europe also changed. Many of the 19th century women were able to have a profession as they received higher and wider education‚ and also allowed to have more participation in society. In the musical life of 19th century Europe‚ numbers
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constituted the U.S. at this time are the nation’s major cities‚ the South‚ the North‚ and Trans-Appalachia. -The nation’s cities were centers of commerce‚ trade and manufacturing. The artisans and apprentices of the 18th century gave way to factories and wage-based pay in the 19th century which caused urban life to radically shift toward a labor-focused rather than agrarian-focused lifestyle. In New York shoes and iron were top commodities while Philadelphia was a center for textiles. With agriculture
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