1800s

Industrialization in the 1800’s was a large change to the many lives of citizens in the United States, from the technology to their ways of life. Starting from the advancement of technology, rail roads were becoming predominate and making way throughout the United States. Rail roads have been making life easier for farmers and traveler’s alike making transportation of goods and trips around the country cheap and easy. Till the time came to raise the cost of traveling goods. But rail roads can’t…

asylums in the 1800’s, a huge problem was how incredibly easy it was for someone to be deemed insane and admitted. Photograph Reasons for Admission (Reasons) lists laziness, mental excitement, novel reading, asthma, and grief as a few of many absurd reasons that an individual would be ruled mentally ill and then immediately placed into an asylum to be treated and hopefully cured. It seems as if anything someone did or anyway someone felt could be twisted into complete insanity in the 1800’s,…

“Taylor contracted a virulent stomach ailment that may have been cholera or typhoid fever, and he died five days later. More than 100,000 people lined the funeral route to see their hero laid to rest.”(cem.va.gov) During the 1800s, Americans were in the conflict with Mexico and the Native Americans over the control of North America. The American relied on their military, and Zachary Taylor was a major contributor. Taylor had enormous military success, and had a positive impact on the US history.…

The evolution of technology starting in the 1800s brought a significant social and cultural change. With this, there was a growth in the establishments of cities, crop cultivation and the spread of populations. One of the main driving forces for the emergence of technology was the need for innovations and the urgent development of tools to solve daily problems. For instance, Dr. John Gorrie discovered that a tropical disease such as malaria was favored in hot and humid weather and in order to…

economic and social prosperity throughout the country. Determination, progression, and uniqueness all contribute to the overall American dream and ideal character throughout history as well as define the nation. Western expansion began around the early 1800’s with the gain of Louisiana territory made by the…

During the time period of 1800s through the early 1900s, much happened. There was improvement in inventions and products which made life easier, and more jobs were given to people that did not have jobs. Also, reforms were made that gave equal power to all. The accelerated period of industrial growth during the 1800s and into the early 1900s was more helpful because new products were made, land was conserved, and progressive reforms were made. Industrialism was helpful because conservation was…

In the mid to late 1800’s, there were many issues surrounding human equality, both in and out of the educational system. The struggles over social class, social status, race, and gender equality helped shape the educational system between 1850 and 1900. Through external factors, foreign influences, educational movements, progressive leaders, and legislative acts, vocational education began putting its roots deeply into American soil. Several external factors led to the need for new ways of…

to marry in their late teens or early twenties, the couple verbally invited family and friends to attend a typical November, December, or January wedding sometimes located in a church. Similar to a traditional twenty-first-century wedding, in the 1800s, “Wedding festivities often began with eating, drinking, and toasting, continued with games and dancing, and ended with the couple’s exit from the bride’s house” (Maurer). Yet on the contrary, in the antebellum era, a wedding ceremony began with…

including in the United States of America. Here in the United Stated, Drug abuse has been a problem from the foundation of the country. Opium and alcohol were some of the first substances that were used and abused in early American history. During the 1800s, developments in medicine led to the creation of morphine, codeine and cocaine. Initially, the drugs were unregulated and readily available. When it became clear that the drugs were a serious problem, regulations were developed and laws…

slave or two or maybe two hundred or more. It was a normal thing for Americans to have slaves working for them on their farms or just around their house. Although in the 1800s all that changed, the North stepped back and look at slavery from a opposing viewpoint than the South, and that’s when the turmoil began. By the 1800s if you lived in the South and didn’t have a slave, then you were divergent from the crowd. Since there was a strong need for cotton, there became more and more…