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Jimin Kim US History, AP World History Mr. William Carrigan 12/16/2014 Single Sex Education in the 1800s In the 19th century, education in America was conducted within a large scale of single-sex framework. It was due to societal views, expectations, and opportunities for each gender. Men were required formalized education in order to demonstrate their expected occupations while women were expected to attain practical skills for domestic lives rather than formalized and advanced education.…

The viewpoint society has about specific diseases based on societal or cultural normality in that time period is referred to as social construction. Social construction is developed at the societal and community level of the social ecological model of health because it is based on how people think about certain discourses. Social construction of disease refers to how society feels about a disease. For example, breast cancer has been socially constructed to the idea that women are strong and…

vote just to feel like they’re not left out anymore, but because they wanted to have a say in politics, women wanted to fix many things that would help everyone's health in a workplace or economic standing, not just their own voting rights. The years 1890 to 1920 were the turn of the century for women. The women during…

John Charles Fremont was born in Savannah, Georgia, in the year of 1813. He is the son of Charles Fremont, and Ann Beverley Whiting of Virginia. Fremont grew up in Charleston, and was educated in the science department of the College of Charleston. He was later expelled in 1831, three months from graduation. Fremont is most well-known for his exploration of the American West. He was also a huge figure in California’s 19th century gold rush. In his early life, he became a fast national hero for…

Development of the steel industry was boosted by discovery of the Bessemer process. ("Second Industrial Revolution") Henry Bessemer and William Kelly drastically reduced the cost and time needed in producing steel from pig-iron. They found out that that blasting air through molten iron produced high quality steel. Steel was widely used in construction of buildings, because it provided good support for skyscrapers and tall towers. Cornelius Vanderbilt, an American entrepreneur who built his…

Biography and Background Information Edward Bellamy was born on March 26, 1850, in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts as the son of a Baptist minister. Growing up in the Gilded Age from the end of the Civil War up to the late 19th century, he saw the rapid economic growth and corrupt business practices with the vast railroad expansions and industrialization and the poverty and inequality especially among the worker class and immigrants. He first realized the troubles of the urban poor while spending…

To add salt to the wound, in 1904, Russia suffered a humiliating loss to yet another industrially superior imperialist, Japan, in the Russo-Japanese War. The Tsar learned the importance of further industrializing the nation. In the 1890 's, Russia had slowly begun industrializing, but at nowhere near the pace of Britain or Japan. Factories had sprung up in major cities like the capital, Petrograd–which is known as Saint Petersburg. Like in all urban factories, Russian factory workers…

Australian Labor Party is the oldest political organization in the political history of Australia, since it was formed in the 1890s and it had a representative in the first federal government that was elected in 1901. The major purpose of its formation was the early trade unions that existed by that period, and since then, it has maintained a close relationship with the trade unions in Australia. The party’s national platform provides the supporters and members with a clear outline of labor’s…

immigrants entered this country. From 1891 to 1900, 393,516. In the last 10-years (1904-1914), 976,263 Jews immigrated, which represented 62.5 per cent of the total Jewish immigration for this period. The yearly variations of the total Jewish immigration correspond closely to the Russian Jewish emigration movement. In 1899, the Romanian and the Austria-Hungary movements swelled the number. The year 1906, marked the high-water mark of Jewish immigration: 153,748 immigrants, practically…

Otto von Bismarck was a master of foreign affairs and a great politician at his time. He effectively ruled Prussia first and then all of Germany, between 1862 and 1890. His solution to never having war was to create a system of alliances to making it mutually beneficial to all of the great powers and therefore protect his newly united Germany and allowing it to strengthen. Bismarck's objective of the foreign policy was to keep peace among the people. Bismarck saw France taking revenge on…