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    Mormons and their hardships of the 1800s Mormons had a hard time finding their “home”. they had moved very many places with people viewing their religion as a cult. From militias attacking them without the Mormons having any protection (not even the town marshals) to being imprisoned for their beliefs‚ Mormons had an awful time finding somewhere to call their home. Until they moved West‚ to Salt Lake City‚ Utah. The Mormon people knew that if they moved West to Salt Lake that nobody could chase

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    Unit 1 – 1491-1607 Unit 2 – 1607-1754 Unit 3 – 1754 – 1800 Unit 4 – 1800 – 1848 Unit 5 – 1844 – 1877 Unit 6 – 1865 – 1898 Unit 7 – 1890 – Unit 8 – Unit 9 – Is History True? Notes Responses History is a complex process that combines historical facts and a historian’s interpretation to those facts The Uses of History Supplicants seek only reassuring confirmation as they prepare to act. The usable past demanded of history consists of the data to flesh out a formula. The demand

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    The Organized Labor Movement It was in the 1800s‚ that the United States started to gain considerable wealth because of industrial expansion. Along with this it provided a wider variety of cheaper goods. Then economic growth started to cause issues‚ the people working were struggling to survive. Women‚ immigrants and minorities faced discrimination (Lapsansky-Werner 91). Immigrants started to take up a large portion of the workforce because they were willing to work for low wages and that was

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    For the immigrant workers‚plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s was extremely hard.Living conditions were terrible‚disgusting and unsanitary‚too small for the amount of people fit in the barracks;Working conditions were hard;painful and the salary was way too low‚and the race discrimination and gender difference were unfair‚while the worst jobs were given to the Asians‚and the best jobs were given to the whites and Portuguese. Living conditions were disgusting‚unsanitary‚too small‚and terrible

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    to describe the new creations and discoveries. For this‚ English relied heavily on Latin and Greek. Words like oxygen‚ protein‚ nuclear‚ and vaccine did not exist in the classical languages‚ but they were created from Latin and Greek roots. Such neologisms were not exclusively created from classical roots though‚ English roots were used for such terms as horsepower‚ airplane‚ and typewriter. This burst of neologisms continues today‚ perhaps most visible in the field of electronics and computers. Byte

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    bringing many cases to the courtroom. In the early 1800s‚ a number of people with disabilities were placed in institutions where they dealt with poor living conditions. Since then‚ we began to see some progress including the classification of Mental Disorders‚ Education for the Mentally Disabled and Deaf‚ Institution for the insane‚ and Sheltered workshop for the blind. Moving into the 1900’s‚ people with disabilities began to receive benefits from states following the Great depression. The Social

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    The Civil Rights Movement In the early 1800s many rich Americans owned slaves. The slaves were captured from their home land of Africa. As a slave they were forced to do an abundance of manual labor on white people’s plantations for no pay‚ they were often beaten if they didn’t do as their “owners” told them to do. Many influential people fought to free African American slaves‚ these people included Abraham Lincoln‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Frederick Douglass‚ and many more. When Abraham Lincoln signed

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    The Awakening By: Danny Pitts Society ’s Standards In the late 1800s‚ as well as the early 1900 ’s‚ women felt discriminated against by men and by society in general. Men generally held discriminatory and stereotypical views of women. Women had no control over themselves and were perceived to be nothing more than property to men. They were expected to live up to a perfect image that society had created‚ while trying to comply with their husbands ’ desires. While many women felt dissatisfied

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    Child Labor Laws In The 1800s 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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    In the final years of the 1800s‚ American focus took a unexpected turn from industrial development to the far more risky game of international politics. Previously a primarily isolationist country‚ America’s burst of imperialism appeared almost random. After all‚ President Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality set the precedent for a non-interventionist country‚ which the United States as adhering to‚ more or less. However‚ considering the extremely popularity of Manifest Destiny‚ imperialism

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