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    Ever wondered how immigrants such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Portuguese, etc lived their lives as plantation workers in the 1800-1900s? Plantation workers, KK IV, Lunas, and planters needed more workers for the starting of sugar plantation during the 1800s in Hawaii because the sugar industry was booming so they imported foreigners. Well, let’s just say that their lives were difficult back then. They had dreadful living conditions, dangerous and strict working conditions, and as well as unfair

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    The 1700s and 1800s bought big changes for the United States. The United States became stronger due to economic improvements, the War of 1812 and the westward movements. Part of the reason that the United States became stronger is because of economic improvements. These economic improvements include: the National Bank, the American System, and The First Industrial Revolution. When Alexander Hamilton called 8jmfor a Bank of the United States, he imagined a central bank that would strengthen the national

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    the falling of the walls, and the roar of the flames made pandemonium at the fort." Doubleday said after the battle at Fort Sumter. The confederates and the union were fighting over slavery, which took place in the United States of America during the 1800's. It ended well for one of them. The Civil War was a horrible event that started in 1861 and ended in 1865, we are still struggling with the effects of the Civil War today. The start of the Civil War It started in 1861 when Abraham Lincoln became

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    During the late 1800s both China and Japan were suffering from unequal treaties, poverty, civil unrest, and lack of modern technology. Both countries knew that reform was necessary in order to prevent further chaos, but the way each country approached reform varied. China’s attempts to reform were rather unsuccessful, while on the hand japans reforms succeeded in unifying the nation and undoing the unequal treaty system. The reforms that took place in both countries were very complex in nature and

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    Roles of Women in the late 1800s Around the late 1800s, the roles of women were different than todays. Women could not participate in majority of the occupations that men are allowed too. Women could not vote, they were unauthorized to own property, and were restricted to working. Women were only seen as stay at home wives, and completed all the duties as a housewife. Women cooked, cleaned, and nurtured the children while the fathers worked outside the home. The womanhood was considered to be

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    The Arab-Israeli conflict has been an ongoing issue from the 1800s. The conflict is based on the struggle for land for both the Jews and the Arabs. When the 1947 partition plan was established by the United Nations to split Palestine into two states, the Palestinian Arab people ended up with less land than the Jewish (Jewish- 56 percent and Arabs- 43 percent of Palestine). This decision lead to war between the two groups, meaning that there was no peace. The Arabs have been through a lot since

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    adjustment. The people went along well with the new technology, but the machines and general atmosphere in factories was dreadful. Deaths were extremely common. Child labor was a necessity for the time period, but has since been rightfull illegaliszed. In 1800's factories, where child labor was a common necessity, deaths were almost an every day experience. The young girl from whom the letter was written did not seem overly sensitive to relaying information about a death. For example, Mary writes to her

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    In the 1800’s the use of a mixture of salespeople and the creation of mad men advertisers were called Pitchmen (Kurtuldu, 2012). Pitchmen were granted patents to sell medicine to and in America. They would make ridiculous and sometimes dangerous claims. This was their form of marketing and branding the medicine (Kurtuldu, 2012). For instance, one medicine claimed to cure exhaustion and headache relief which turns out the main ingredient was cocaine. From 1886 through 1929 Coca-Cola was used as

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    In the early 1800’s, the life of women was that of many obligations and few choices. In this time period, a majority of the world, if not all of it was very much living a patriarchal society. “When modern historians and sociologists describe a ‘patriarchal society’ they mean that men hold the positions of power: head of the family unit, leaders of social groups, bosses in the workplace and heads of government.” (AboutEducation.com, 2015) Women were completely controlled by the men in their lives

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    American origin farmers had already been in to the islands in the early 1800s. They dominated the economic life of Hawaiian. American industries which depend upon agricultural products to the chain of Pacific islands as a source of profit. Learning from failure of Blaine’s initiatives, which had given foundation for later administrations

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