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doll in his creation of his life. Jane finally released her voice and demanded her life back. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Gilman utilizes the story to give the audience a glimpse of the mistreatment of women and the mentally ill in the 1890’s by displaying the improper care and abuse that Jane…

such a blind rage that they proceeded to kill their own. Hawthorn stated after the first attack the 7th Cavalry retaliated. "I was interpreting for General Forsyth (Forsyth was actually a colonel) just before the battle of Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890. The captured Indians had been ordered to give up their arms, but Big Foot replied that his people had no arms. Forsyth said to me, 'Tell Big Foot he says the Indians have no arms, yet yesterday they were well armed when they surrendered. He is…

By 1890, P&G moved from being a private to publicly traded company. In order to raise money for the company, they sold stocks and also offered employees opportunities to purchase stock. (3). At this time, Proctor and Gamble company were already producing 30…

companies to encourage construction in the west and to also remove “Indians from the Western lands that were desired by farmers and mining companies”.(2) In 1890 two-thirds of American worked for wages. “Railroads made possible the second industrial revolution. “From 1860 to 1880 railroads tracks tripled from the East to the West Coast. During the year 1890 five transcontinental lines transported products of the Western mines, farms and ranches to the east”. (3) With the population growing this…

Viterbo Lincoln is a self important, Catholicism Christianity liberal study college situated in La Crosse, River, Joint States. Bolstered in 1890, Viterbo offers 69 collegian award programs, squad graduate degrees, one doctoral capability, two connect state projects, and fourfold confirmation programs. In 2014 U.S. Data and Domain Describe stratified Viterbo in the top provincial colleges in the Midwest at 109 and the lincoln's set nursing papers across the nation at 234. With more than 18,000…

On December 29, 1890, the United States’ Seventh Cavalry surrounded a camp of Sioux Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. According to eyewitness to history, Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890, the Cavalry’s mission was to arrest the Miniconjou Lakota’s chief, Big Foot, and disarm his warriors, because of their involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. The conflict quickly arose, as a result of the tension that had been building up between the two sides for the past few months…

10-11). By 1870, Western Union sent millions of telegrams and by the 1890s, over 60 million telegrams were sent a year (Foote 86). With the telegram being a big hit during this time, that would’ve been the only way Mrs. Mallard would have found out about her husband’s death. Since it wasn’t clear where Mr. Mallard was during…

These laws state “all property… went to [a woman’s] husband when she married” (Carole Shamas). This means that if a woman were to get divorced, she would lose everything. Laws such as these made women feel inferior and dependent on men. During the 1890’s, the only jobs available to most women were “manual factory work and service employment” (Claudio Goldin). The conditions in these jobs were…

In the mid-1800s, cotton became the single-handedly most used material for clothing and is still the most used for fashion today. Although the use for cotton hasn’t changed, trends in fashion in the 1890s to today certainly have. From underwear to outerwear, fashion has undeniably altered along with time. In the mid-16th century Roxey Ann Caplin created the corset, but it’s fame came from the Victorian era (1837-1901). “A corset is a type of undergarment that supports the bust and defines the…

idea that would change machinery forever. It the 1886 and a man named Benjamin Holt created the first combined harvester and coincidentally enough, he made it here in our hometown, Stockton, California. He then built his first steam engine tractor in 1890 and from there he incorporated the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1892 and from there on out, his life and the machine world was changed forever. Holt then went on out and creating and establishing its empire of a company, from purchasing an…