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    Today’s children have far more rights than they did years ago. Back in the 1800’s child labour was common and children could be found working at least 10 hours a day, up to 6 days a week with poor working conditions such as no real breaks and poor toileting facilities, if any. Sunday schools were introduced at this time to give the youngsters something to do and to help keep them out of trouble on their day off. Today not many children attend Sunday school, because actually not as many people

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    America in the 1800s America was one country by the 1800s, but in reality there were many differences between the North and South regions, including climate, economy, social structure, and daily life. These differences made agreeing to something as a nation harder. As the nation expanded out, people began to wonder what would become of this nation which got divided into two different nations that were as divergent as possible. For starters, the climate and geography of these two regions were very

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    The Industrial Revolution was the transmission process to manufacturing, this took place in the 1700s and the 1800s. Before this time manufacturing was done at a small level, usually done at people’s homes, using the truest and basic forms of machinery. But in the Industrialization age there was a shift to powerful, multi-purpose machines, and big factories. This Industrial age brought forward thousands of jobs for the men, women, and children. The Industrial Revolution did bring a surplus and diversity

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    The “mountain men” were a group of people that lived or explored on the frontier from about the early 1800’s to the early 1870’s. They were the toughest of the tough of the time living on the brink of life and death every day with life expectancies never exceeding more than 10 years after moving out to the wilderness. Some of them would either move out to the edge of where people had not brought infrastructure to the wilderness and build houses, work for the military as a scout to map and explore

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    Trains developed in the early 1800’s. Because of railroads, commuter trains became an important of the american history. Commuter train is also known as suburban train. Commuter trains help transport people from places to places. Many people use the commuter trains in their everyday live. It also created a change in the industry, and allowed humans to expand. The train became a way where people transport goods and resources in matter of days instead of months. As centuries goes on and with the advancement

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    In the 1800s almost everything was created in a factories. You need people to work in there so it created more jobs for people to work at. A lot of the times it was kids working in there because they are small and can get in the small parts of the machines so it made the adults jobs easier but put a lot of kids in danger of the machines. The conditions in the factories were always bad. If it was in the summer the workers would get very hot and in the winter they would mostly freeze and it would be

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    medical instruction was the apprenticeship approach. The length of apprenticeship was approximately of three years; at the end of that period a certificate was earned (Weiss & Lonnquist, 2009). There were three formal medical schools founded in the 1800 (The University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and King's College) that eventually were joined by a significant number of proprietary or for-profit medical schools, which come to be the leading vehicle of medical education in the mid-nineteenth century

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    National Unity 1800-1850

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    The expansion of the United States had an enormous impact of the national unity during the time period of 1800-1850. While the expansion brought new discoveries, industrialization of manufacturing, and the growth of an agrarian society, it also brought conflict and unrest between political parties and the North and South. Elections brought out the worst in growing political parties causing more separation of Americans. With slavery as a huge debate, the North and South were becoming more divided

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    they know that remnants of their philosophies would still be in use over a century later. One very influential ideology in American imperialism was created by Alfred T. Mahan. Mahan was a historian, geostrategist, and US Navy admiral. By the late 1800s, he had become the Navy’s leading advocate and become very influential in politics with his close

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    between the sexes, but women have the last laugh on men when it comes to how long we live. This advantage in lifespan was not always so pronounced, however. An article in realclearscience.com reveals that for men and women born in the early to mid 1800s, the mortality rate of men to women was around 1.2 when looking at the numbers of each who died at age 60. This means 120 men dieing at that age for every 100 women. By the end of the 19th century, however, this mortality ratio had climbed to 1.6 and

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