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    Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia‚ their meeting marked the beginning of America’s separation from 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

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    infrastructure and by integrating markets and increasing trade‚ this helped grow these two respective economies. Railroads allowed India and Mexico to increase their imports and exports‚ and also attributed to people becoming more connected between cities‚ which could have contributed to the native people of both countries desiring independence from their foreign rulers. Both photographs that I have chosen for the India sections depict the same idea. Both photographs show railroad workers and engineers posing

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    During the 19th century‚ many changes/continuities occurred throughout Russia. For example changes in the political‚ social and economic states. These changes impacted Russia in a good or bad‚ for example causing riots and protests in the economy or stabilizing the economy. And some changes were either successful or not. In 1905 the Russian Revolution took over Russia with political riots. The cause of the Russian revolution was the State Duma which was introduced in 1906. The State Duma is

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    Nationalism was an important factor of the 19th century. During this time period‚ the map of europe started to transformed into the map of europe we know today. This is was what was known as ‘’romantic nationalism’’ that swept over the continent. New countries were formed such as germany and italy. Because of this common national identity‚ smaller nations were formed. The rise of imperialism and colonialism took place in germany. Germany would dealt with the latter stages of ‘’scramble to africa’’

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    Several factors contributed to the unsuccessful reform efforts in the nineteenth century. A few major roadblocks were violent methods that monopolies used to combat the unions such as The National Guard‚ and Pinkerton Guards. Despite seeming like a positive aspect ‚ rags to riches stories by Horatio Alger significantly reduced change due to the fact that the poor still believed they too could be rich. The last major issue that blocked reform was the fact that unions were viewed as radicals and anarchists

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    It Emerged in the 19th century when Glasgow was flourishing financially with exceptional economic buoyancy and urban growth in engineering and shipbuilding. While Glasgow was the second city of the British Empire there was a prosperous middle class and a extreme amount of poverty

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    What role did the “civilizing mission” play in the expansion of Britain’s empire in the 19th century? At the close of the 19th century Rudyard Kipling preserved the prevailing attitude of Britain’s intellectual elite in a poem - “The White Man’s Burden”. In his work Kipling confirms the hubris of a generation of Britons who were entirely convinced that they were culturally‚ rationally‚ and morally superior to the “new-caught…Half-devil and half-child” natives of the British colonies. This belief

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    What factors contributed to the growing Australian National Identity by 1901? • Gold • Political Activism • Nationalism By 1901‚ Australia had grown as a population as gold had been discovered and migrants moved to Australia to mine this mineral‚ as well as political activism and women’s suffrage and everyone standing up and fighting off the British and raising the Southern Cross flag. With the gold discovered‚ people migrated from all over the word to come mine in Ballarat

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    practice of the United States since before the American Revolution. Acts of greed and selfishness led to America’s first taste of imperialism. Christopher Columbus came to America over five hundred years ago. They fought the natives‚ took their lands by killing them and then made them slaves. Devine Manifestation was the belief that God sent them fourth to possess the land for expansion and growth. The United States‚ one of the most powerful countries in the world‚ has sought to expand‚ control‚ or

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    Matthew Arnold‚ John Ruskin‚ Walter Pater‚ and Oscar Wilde were 19th century writers who all had one belief in common: that the criticism of works of art is at least as important as the works of art themselves. In 1865‚ Matthew Arnold stated that the function of criticism is “to see the object as in itself it really is.” In 1891‚ Oscar Wilde expressed that his view of the role of criticism was “to see the object as in itself it really is not.” This essay seeks to determine how and why one definition

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