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    Abortion In The 1800s

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    It can start between week 13 through week 25 of the pregnancy. American states got their initial abortion laws from the British common law. Abortion procedures and methods were legal, unregulated, and often unsafe until at least the early 1800’s. In the mid-1800’s, early pro-life advocate Dr. Horatio Robinson Storer (1830-1922) convinced the American Medical Association to join him in campaigning for the outlawing of abortion nationwide. However in 1821, Connecticut became the first…

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    Slavery In The 1800s

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    countless hours day and night. Some people say it’s not slavery because they pay the kids, truth is these kids aren’t even getting minimum wage. Slavery is unacceptable there are kids being enslaved, also modern day slavery is worse than slavery in the 1800’s, and enforcement on slavery and the punishments are lacking. We have fought for our freedom and to protect the children of this world on many different occasions. Yet there are still about 5.5 million kids enslaved and a percentage comes…

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    Nationalism In The 1800s

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    The 1800s saw the rise of nationalism throughout Europe and it led to the unification of the Italian and German states. Nationalism continues to play a role in European politics in the modern world and is one of the most important developments of the 1800s. Although nationalism played an important role in Europe in the 1800s, its definition varied and this variation would inspire different causes. The differences in the definition of nationalism given by Giuseppe Mazzini and Ernest Renan…

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    Mathematicians 1800s

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    Scientist And Mathematicians Of The 1800s The purpose of this articulated essay is to inform the reader about two beings in the 19th century who contributed to the fields of mathematics and scientifics. so, may this article discuss to you the purpose of these two men and the ways they changed the world, through thick and thin , hard and easy, and how they showed the world their ill-minded ideas and turned them into objects that shaped it and the people who inhabit it. so, may this essay please…

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    Bureaucracy In The 1800s

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    The federal bureaucracy was rather small in the 1800s employing around three thousand employees that worked for the government (Patterson, 2013, p. 333). However, towards the end of the 1800s the bureaucracy began to grow tremendously in size due to the growth in the economy (Patterson, 2013, p. 333). Also, due to the demands that the economy required, this would generate an even greater demand on the government (Patterson, 2013, p. 333). Nonetheless, in 1889 the Department of Agriculture was…

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    Bankruptcy In 1800s

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    the framers of the Constitution pursued to demonstrate bankruptcy laws as soon as English law on the matter. Congress voted for the first federal law relating to bankruptcy in 1800 and known as the Bankruptcy Act of 1800. Comparable to numerous other states bankruptcy techniques in that period, the Bankruptcy Act of 1800 was…

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    Feminism In The 1800s

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    The Facets of Early American Feminism The word “feminism” carries many controversial connotations. Feminism in America, though preceded by Europe, began around the early 1800’s. As the Civil War brought hope for the growth of opportunities for black slaves, other social movements were also able to gain footing. This idea of feminism actually planted the seed for growth of women’s rights and gender equality through the years. 19th-century feminism in America paved the way for the advancement of…

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    Technology In The 1800s

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    Technology How would you act with not a lot of technology? Well there wasn't a lot of things that were invented back in the 1800’s, but there was little things that made good impacts on people. Back then people didn't really care what they had or didn't have, then just cared that they had things to communicate with others, and things that they had never seen before so they were happy. The piece of technology that I will talk about is the telephone. The telephone was made on March 10th 1876.…

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    Doughnuts In The 1800s

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    The doughnut evidently first appeared in the 1800s in Manhattan, they were known as oily cakes. The Dutch were the ones who introduced them to America. In 1847 it was claimed that a 16-year-old sailor, Captain Hanson Gregory, invented the hole in the doughnut when he needed to have both hand on the wheel in a storm he stuck the doughnut through a spoke of his ships wheel. Though others claim that the hole was made in the middle because the sides would be fried but the inside would be raw. Later…

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    Industrialization began in the U.S in the early 1800’s and continued throughout the Civil War; it caused lasting effects on the American life.The majority of the workforce was made up of manual laborers and continued to be until the end of the Civil War in 1865. Soon after, machines replaced manual labor, and American jobs were taken by new immigrants in search of work and hopes for a better life.The railroad, a nationwide network of railways, could now distribute goods across the country.…

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