1800 Essay

During the late 1800s, many Americans worked at jobs that required little or no real skill. These jobs were tedious and boring because they did the same task every day for however long they worked. Their work day included long hours and was often six to seven days each week. These workers were not only working for low wages and long hours, they were working at jobs that involved extremely unsafe working conditions. Workers were becoming angry at their employers and the competition for the available

is known as greed. Greed poses the question “is greed good”? So , is it? Is a need or want for more, good? And if so, how? After analyzing and depicting articles about the 1800’s it is evident that greed is good, and here’s why; The want for more wealth lead to an increase in the buying of invention patents from the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s. People wanted to claim what was theirs and be able to make money from it. As they wanted to build their wealth, people bought more. This expanded

As it turns out history really does repeat itself. As today we fight and most recently accomplished equal rights in the church. In the 1800’s we were fighting an equally important battle, equality for women. It is well known that women were second class citizen well beyond what anyone remembers. The movement to become equal citizens pressed through the 1800’s up until the Equal Rights Amendment for Woman was passed by congress on March 22, 1972 along with the Woman’s suffrage movement ratified on

In the early 1800’s, high in the mountains, secluded from the rest of the world a small town that goes by Umbrae. The town only had 130 people living there. The nearest town was six hours away by hours and carriage. The people live normal lives, they helped each other with anything and everything. They were all friendly and kind to each other. It was just a simple town… well you could say they were just a “normal” town with “normal people. But one day, in the middle of September a carriage

holiday in 1894. To some Americans, Labor Day symbolizes the end of the summer. It is celebrated with parties, parades, and athletic events. Labor Day originated during the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States which was in the late 1800s (Labor Day, 2010). Around this time, the average American worked 12 hours days and seven days a week. Even though there were regulations in some of the states, children who were as young as 5 or 6 worked in mills, factories and mines. They only earned

Listen to the fairytales people were told as kids. People lived like that during the 1800’s. In the Victorian Era the literature and the fashion have sculpted some of the most elegant dresses and fairy tales that the world has today. Most clothes the world has today has been influenced by the Victorian times. Wedding dresses, party dresses such as prom dresses and homecoming dresses, all these styles or clothing were influenced somehow by this era. People say that undergarments are so uncomfortable

In the 1800s European decided it was a good idea to forcefully imperialize Africa. They divided Africa into colonies of which, only two are independent from other countries. The main reasons that Europeans conquered the colonies in Africa was because of Nationalism, raw materials and the economy.     Nationalism is he feeling of pride and loyal to a nation. This would evidently lead to competition with other nations on who has more power. Imperialism was one of these so called competition. “It would

battle to birth more children than died in utero, in infancy, or of childhood disease. The birth and mortality rates were so high that women had to have a stop to it. American white women were considered to be the ones having the most children. In 1800 American women were bearing an average of 7.04 children; 5.21 in 1860; and 3.56 in 1900. During this time the rates were so high because the typical women of the household was supposed to be the one at home cleaning, cooking, taking

now a family could be anything then it was strictly a man and woman with kids. This is one of the biggest changes in the family in the past 50 years along with so many others. Education was not something that was looked at as important in the early 1800’s, education is forever changing just like the economy, fashion and cultural views. Society is changing just as much as an education, so how are they related? With the views on religion, marriage and gender equality education in America is being changed

The 1800s the United states was eager for new land. With population booming westward expansion seemed to be the only option. The term manifest destiny start from john l O'sullivan in the mid 1800s. O'sullivan said that the United states was destined to expand from coast to coast. At the time the land belongs to others and the U.S tried to be civilized with treaties and other but when this didn't worked turned to violence and war to get what they wanted. However the U.S started making its way westward