Christopher Columbus‚ colonialism gained its reverence as it proved valuable politically‚ socially‚ and most importantly economically for powerful nations. Colonization was run by the colonists‚ for the colonists‚ meaning all other parties suffered. In the 1800’s‚ the “Scramble for Africa‚” marked the beginning of racial oppression towards Blacks. Originally desired for their resource abundant land and hard working people‚ the African origin peoples were taken as a means to build up the New World. This subjugation
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In the 1800s‚ people from across the globe left their homeland to come to the United States. They fled crop failure‚ rising taxes‚ oppression‚ and hunger to seek out a new settlement in the U.S.‚ as it was thought to be a land of opportunity and economic success. People with different religion‚ language‚ and appearance were enticed to the United States; however‚ because of their physical differences‚ ethnic groups from across the globe faced discrimination and were subject to racialization. Such
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The 1800’s was an interesting time‚ our country was still developing and the problems our earlier presidents sought out to finish were still lasting. One of the main problems that now has forever been changed in the United States is slavery and we can see the heavy impact abolitionism has had on this social problem so this is where social reform or social reformation comes in. Abolitionism was a movement to terminate slavery. Major occurrences of abolitionism occurred in Spain and France as well
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During the 1800s there was a growing emphasis on the importance of secondary education. Aside from college‚ the emergence of the American high school offered educational opportunities to more students. Despite the ideas of teaching the masses‚ many high schools excluded women from getting a secondary education (the origins of the American high school‚ 127). Additionally‚ enrollment at universities popularized‚ but women remained excluded from attending Ironically‚ by the late 1800s women had become
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The American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like slaves‚ and work under unbearable conditions any longer. Workers joined together and realized that a group is much more powerful than an individual when protesting against intimidating companies. Unions‚
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Child Labor Laws In The 1800’s Child Labor‚ once known as the practice of employing young children in factories‚ now it’s used as a term for the employment of minors in general‚ especially in work that would interfere with their education or endanger their health. Throughout history and in all cultures children would work in the fields with their parents‚ or in the marketplace and young girls in the home until they were old enough to perform simple tasks. The use of child labor was not a problem
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Expansion and Exploration Many Americans in the 1800s were excited to move west. The west made many different settlers want to travel there. Some wanted to go for adventure and to make money. Others wanted to go for fertile farmland and to make a new life. No matter what the reason the people were important the expansion of the United States. People rushed west because of the beaver skin hat that was popular in the U.S. And Europe. The first people that traveled west were mostly fut traders
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The American Dream The American Dream is a term that implies a successful and satisfying life. Many people associate it with immigration‚ as the dream of religious freedom‚ economic prosperity‚ and opportunity has historically driven immigrants to the United States. The term is used by a lot of modern Americans to signify success in life as a result of hard work. A man named James Truslow Adams first used the term in his book The Epic of America‚ written in 1931. He states "The American Dream
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While the doctors were giving treatments‚ their work area was not very sanitary and that caused a high risk of infection. Also‚ most of the doctors had no idea what they were doing because they had no formal education of medicine. In the 1800s most of the medicine practiced was based off of a logical guess then prayers to get better. Soon the sickness was only identified by its symptoms rather than the sickness itself. Most treatments went straight to bleeding‚ and sometimes the given
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The Labor Movement in the 1920s As a correction to the wartime effort‚ inflation and unemployment increased because there was not a need to mass-produce products for war‚ and America had to return to "normalcy". The amount of labor unrest increased during this time period‚ which is very obvious by the increase of labor strikes. There was a strike by the United States Steel Corporation workers in 1919. They were annoyed with their seven 12 hour workdays a week. The leader of the American Federation
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