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    In the late 19th century, America was facing a revolutionary change among social norms. Even though the country was continuing to flourish, minorities and women were treated as unfit to be citizens. Times were oppressive for those individuals who just wanted to be equal. Several movements spawn from this prejudice era. One of the main movements commonly talked about would be the feminist movement. As society progressed a foundation was put in place that often left out the rights of women. Feelings

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    Late 19th Century Japan

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    In the nineteenth century, Japan experienced a traumatic shift. This shift had elements from the conservative isolationist policies of the shogun dominated edo period to the large and rapid spread drive to modernize and engage with the rest of the world that characterizes and personalizes the meiji restoration. during the early 19 century and the late 18 century the tokyo school of fine arts was opened the school's emphasis on the Japanese traditional arts rather than on western art opitimizes the

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    Preparatory seeing about fatigue failure of metals grew in 19th century amid mechanical unrest in Europe when substantial obligation trains, boilers and so on fizzled under cyclic loads. It was William Albert who in 1837 initially distributed an article on fatigue that built up a connection between cyclic load and strength of the metal. After two years in 1839, Jean-Victor Poncelet, fashioner of cast iron axles for plant wheels, formally utilized the term fatigue without precedent for a book on mechanics

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    Over the course of history immigrants began to settle and occupy New York City and many other growing towns like Chicago and Philadelphia. These immigrants faced many harsh treatments from the native born Americans. When the immigrants came to America they had nowhere to go. They ended up moving into neighborhoods that were highly neglected and buildings that were very run down and poverty stricken. The buildings they moved into were known as tenements. They are for multiple families and they are

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    1. Describe some of the events and scientific discoveries that shook the late nineteenth century’s confidence in the idea of progress. What effect did these events have on music, literature, and the arts? Despite the incredible advancements from the scientific world in the late nineteenth century, the rapidly developing industry had its dark side. Telephones, automobiles, and airplanes were in their early stages of development, and were all crashing into people's worlds at an a dangerously fast

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    significant impact on these colonized part of world. While in the 1920s, The United States began to dominate the entertainment industry of the world with the rise of the Hollywood and the spread of the western ideas through the movies. During the late nineteenth century, European civilization experienced a period of unprecedented rapid expansion around the globe during. European nation-states had become very powerful because of industrial Revolution fundamentally altered the nature of European oversea expansion

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    Working Condition In the late 19th-century the United States is probably famous and known for the vast expansion of its industrial plant and output. At the heart of these huge increases was the mass production of the goods by machines. All this process was first introduced and perfected by the British textile manufacturers. In the century since such mechanization had begun, machines had replaced highly skilled craftspeople in one industry after another. By the 1870s, machines were knitting stockings

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    It is hard to deny that the imperialism seen in the late 19th century and early 20th century was merely a continuation of American expansionism from the earlier 19th century. The sentiment toward expansionism and reasons as to why America must expand into the West remain the same when expansion began abroad. When the boundaries of the contiguous United States were all but settled, it was natural for the United States to turn overseas to continue its conquest of new lands. Justifying this was the

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    imperialism. This is due in part of the infancy of the U.S. as a nation. The U.S. maintained a policy of isolationism until the late 19th century. In the late 19th century, the U.S. began to become a major player in international trade and the arena of world affairs and therefore needed more breathing room. Imperialist acquisitions during the late 19th, and early 20th centuries impacted the United States in multiple positive ways. Politically, the United States proved to the world that they were a force

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    the war, but they still did not have technology that was advanced enough to easily produce all the necessary materials and money. After the civil war, America embarked on a journey of economic expansion and unification for the nation. In the late 19th century, government policies, technological advancements and population changes contributed to

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