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    1900's Dbq

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    The events that took place all through the 1900’s are a huge part of what has shaped our history all the way up until this day. It’s also a huge part of what shaped America and made us the free desegregated nations that we are today. For example segregation back in the 1900’s and caused many big events that all resulted in successes and failures. Jim Crow laws were made which are laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other big events that took place were protests like

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    The ban on alcohol in the early 1900s sounded great when it was first brought up, but would end up being a very bad decision. The prohibition not only affected the people of the United States but also its economy. It also made people break the law more often with crimes like bootlegging and selling alcohol illegally. I will be talking about the timeline of how prohibition began and ended and how it affected the United States government. The prohibition affected the society of the United States in

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    African Americans By 1900

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    African Americans were confronted with a practically unconquerable number of obstructions in 1900. Any way you take a gander at it, as far as the instructive framework, especially considering the way that the greater part of them, the expansive lion's share are still in the South. What's more, to the extent instruction is concerned, African Americans are given no road of training on the lower level, which makes it troublesome for them to seek to advanced education since they don't have the basics

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    Women Suffrage in the 1900s Women were treated unfairly from men just solely based on the fact that they are women because women were thought of as weak at the time . However, women wanted to fight and break the stereotype to show that they can more than what society makes them out to be. Events like the involvement of America during World War 1 and women role during the war is what also pushed women movement in various ways but also showing their importance in the American society. The​ ​fight​

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    Nursing in the 1900s to present The nursing profession became a recognized vocational during the crusades (1100 to 1200). Criminals, widows, and orphans were recruited to take care of the sick in exchange for housing and food. Health care conditions became extremely bad. In the mid 1800s Florence Nightingale a woman who studied in Germany with a Protestant order of woman who cared for the sick lowered the death rate from 60% to 1%. She train a group of woman to care for the sick and wounded. She

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    The United States government has effected huge social changes in the last four decades. During 1940s United States emerged as a world leader. The past years of the 1900s many factors have happened that resulted in the change of the United States history and future. It changed the everyday lives of Americans of how they survived and supported themselves and their family, in both positive and negative ways that affected them daily. For instance, the political affairs of the government and the election

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    many years ago, in the early 1900s meat consumers bought spoiled and rat infested hams that were produced by the meat industries. Nowadays, the meat industry has improved to a certain extent. Today, about 80% of all U.S. feedlots are injected with hormones (Lerner). Americans should know what they are eating. This is important in the meat industry because they are the producers of all the meat that we eat. The meat industry has improved and is much better than the 1900s, but still not at as ideal

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    Clothing In The 1900's

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    the development of clothing has changed drastically as well as the style. Even with our improvement of technology, it is hard to say that we know exactly what people were wearing thousands of years ago, but a good place to start is the 1900’s. A big change in the 1900’s was the fact that clothing was a big demand for the Civil war, and since clothing was made in the homes but few people at a time, that demand couldn’t be met. As factories started to deliver a big change for the U.S, clothing styles

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    Gender In The 1900's

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    Gender in the 1900’s was a particular subject that nobody touched upon. The women of that time period questioned it, what is this gender issue? These women at the time did not have the language to identify in equality. Though they very well knew it was going on. In the later 1950’s and 60’s they called it “The Problem that has no name”. This “problem” would prove to certainly be a revolutionary event in history. Gender in the 1900’s denied the Women who were apart of the suffrage movement from being

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    Films In The 1900's

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    There were many early developments for films during the 1800’s through the 1900’s, which took the world by storm. They became more popular as time went by, and over the decades they became internationally popular. Directors who created films had more difficulties than it seemed to grab the attention of the audience when a film was released for their entertainment. Various films during that Era had many similarities and differences on how films were produced. Throughout the essay, it will contain

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