1890

Ideas, institutions, and interests are what drive a state’s policy-making agendas. Institutions are not everything in politics, yet institutional determinism drives politics, choosing which ideas or interests to include or prioritize in a government’s legislative actions, argues Daniel J. Tichenor, the author of Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America. He states that policies are formed and balanced through institutional “veto” and “opportunity” points. One such…

African American. As a form of rebellion against the unjust 1890 law, which stated that segregation via train coaches was perfectly constitutional, Plessy had bought a ticket for the East Louisiana Railway on June 7, 1892. As a test, he informed the train conductor that he was one-eighth black and refused to move from the whites’ only section of the train. Plessy was then arrested and later sued on grounds of violating the Separate Car Act of 1890, and thus had committed an unconstitutional act.…

The story of bicycling in the United States begins in the years just after the Civil War. In the mid-1860s, French mechanics working in blacksmith and carriage shops helped develop machines known as “velocipedes” (from the Latin words velox pedis, or “swift of foot”). Early champions hailed the new technology largely for its utility. Calling it the new “poor man’s horse,” such early “velocipedestrians” promised an end to transportation dependency. The new machines gave individuals a safe,…

Most Americans didn’t know about the poverty until the Muckraking journalism exposed in 1890. In order to resolve urban poverty, Jane Addams established the first settlement house in Chicago, and some settlement house grew into the vanguard for urban reform. Since the many organizations like the settlement house were founded by women, the New Woman appeared for their autonomy and equality of gender. From 1890 to 1892, in political cataclysm, nativism in America, was bolstered visibly and…

Logue and Peter Blanck’s study “"Benefit of the Doubt": African-American Civil War Veterans and Pensions,” provides quantitative data about pension application rates before and after the passing of the 1890 act. The data used in their analysis is what Fogel and colleagues at the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago compiled from service and pension records of men from fifty-two randomly selected companies of the U.S. Colored Troops…

Author Dee Brown presents a factual as well as an emotional kind of relationship among the Indians, American settlers, and the U.S. government. The massacre at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, provides the setting for the story. Brown states the reason behind these efforts and how it provides for the introductions. A chronological period in which the battles of suffering and hardship for the Natives Americans. In this book the author provides insight and eyewitness…

The Progressive Era is a significantly better time for Americans than the Gilded Age. The Progressive Era is the reconstruction of the country after its destruction by the robber barons and their monopolies and capitalistic empires. The country had been so destroyed after the depressions of the 19th century, and there seemed to be a lack of confidence in the large majority of the population. Walt Whitman wrote about how he viewed America and said, “Never was there perhaps, more hollowness at…

Gerardo Martinez Visual Arts Extended Essay How did Vincent Van Gogh’s art style evolve through the years 1886-1890? Vincent Van Gogh is known for both his paintings and for his troubling life. Many of his paintings can be seen in museums all across the world and he has several famous paintings such as ‘’ The Starry Night’’, ‘’Café Terrace at Night’ ‘Irises’ ‘as well as several others. His work continues to inspire many artists including my self. I’ve always wondered if Van Gogh’s style we all…

Over century’s whales have been killed for a number of different reasons. Each year, around 350 whales are killed by the Japanese. Japanese whaling begun in the 1890s and is still continuing today. Consuming whale meat has and still is a part of Japan's history and culture since 1890. Whale meat became a crucial part of the Japanese food supply after World War II, because it was a cheap source of protein for a country that was suffering from post war poverty. Japan was heavily involved in…

In the 1920s, Pan Guangdan introduced the concept of “eugenics” in China. The formal definition of eugenics is the study of improving the qualities of the human species through inheriting desirable traits. Specifically, a few ways to ensure positive eugenics were using birth control and family planning, which are intermittently related. Larmarckian heredity, one of the two major theories of heredity, believed that external environmental factors could positively or negatively affect heredity. As…