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closely followed the movement which started earlier in Europe. Soon after this convention, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was founded. This society confronted the political and social issues that surrounded women in America. By the 1890s, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was fully functioning in society ("The Women 's Rights Movement, 1848–1920 | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives"). "Our ‘Pathway’ is straight to the ballot box,” declares…

Galileo Chini factories reinterpreted the Botticelli style through the literary and artistic lense of Pre-Raphaelitism which later became part of the Italian design repertoire. There was a gradual diffusion of knowledge about Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1890s which had come relatively late to Italy. The workshops were taking their influences from the recently discovered Pre-Raphaelitism which became fashionable after the Venice Biennial of 1895 and in the same year the journal ‘Emporium’ dedicated…

Unlike today where music is very accessible due to various digital gadgets, until the 19th century, music could only be hear through a live performance. This changed when the idea of recording music began in the late 19th century. By the late 1890’s, the idea of a self-playing piano was being talked about between inventors and the public.…

significant changes in American social and political life. Improvements to “rural conditions by the cooperative financing and marketing of crops” began with the Farmers’ Alliance at the end of the nineteenth century. However, the depression of the 1890s stunted the progress of the Farmer’s Alliances. Nevertheless, the Progressive Era finally saw farms and cities grow together, invigorating immigration, consumer freedom, along with a need for women’s and worker’s rights (Foner…

Often times, humans have the tendency to oppose those who they believe are irrational or distinctively different than them. This was the case in the newly unified German nation during the late nineteenth century. Under German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the infant German state began to develop a growing sense of nationalistic pride, as the National Liberals became a dominant political force for political and social activism. When Bismarck and the Prussian-controlled German government tried to…

This essay looks into the life of financial giant J.P Morgan. It explores his early life, how he got where he got, his motivation for the things he did, how he contributed to the Industrial Age, his competitors, and how he defeated them. J.P Morgan truly was a savior. He saved the United States from debt more than once in his lifetime. He settled many disputes that changed the course of development in the Industrial Era. Despite these achievements, he was accused of trying to take full…

The United States of America has a long American Indian history. These people were the first people to inhabit the new world or the Western Hemisphere of the Earth. South Dakota is the current home of the Sioux Nation tribe. South Dakota has ten reservations located in our state, one that covers part of Nebraska (Johnston, n.d., para. 4). South Dakota is one of the many states where American Indian traditions are still celebrated. Through all the struggles and the triumphant Sioux pride has…

civilizations. Many different methods of execution have been used as capital punishment; five common methods include hanging, electrocution, gas chamber, lethal injection, and firing squads. Hanging was the main method of capital punishment until the 1890s (“Descriptions of Execution Methods”). Hangings were started in Persia, which is currently Iran, approximately 2,500 years ago. Criminals were hung from a tree branch or from the back of a cart or horse up until the 1870s (“Lynchings and…

I decided to go to the Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston where I found three artworks that I was interested in. I decided to write about Sparks by Hans Hofmann, Rue Ravignan, Paris by Maximilien Luce, and lastly Rainy Midnight by Childe Hassam. All three of these painting have something different from each other which caught my attention. The first artwork I chose is by Hans Hofmann, it is a oil on canvas painting called Sparks made in the year 1957.The image is trying to show sparks and the…

The history of each country is the most relevant piece of his nation. America is a beautiful country with a valuable culture, who was forged in their beginnings with the reconstruction of the nation after the devastating Civil War. This was an extensive process in the life of the each american. The country had been devastated. For that reason, the economy of the south loser had been inflected to about a 60% of its wealth, while the winner north had been ended the war needing supplies and article…